{"product_id":"9781429972963","title":"Shakedown Beach: A Mystery","description":"\u003cp\u003eTHE GOVERNOR: \"Rebound\" Rothman -- married, family-values New Jersey Republican with White House fantasies, a terrible secret, and a controversial position on young interns: He's for 'em.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTHE TART: Simone Lava, the voluptuous Miss Little Egg Harbor Township.  Rebound keeps her hidden away in Atlantic City's seedy Celebrity Motel where she practices waving like a First Lady -- a title she's been promised, if she'll just lay low during election season.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTHE FIXER: Jackie Disaster, an ex-boxer who runs the Jersey shore's most ruthless damage-control firm.  Jackie digs up the macabre truth about the governor.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTHE POLLSTER: Jonah Eastman, maverick political strategist raised by his mobster grandfather, who gave Rebound his start.  Jonah knows only one thing can save the congenitally deceitful governor: A whopping, heartfelt lie.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eShakedown Beach\u003c\/i\u003e rips open the slats of the Atlantic City boardwalk to impart the big lesson of American politics: When forced to look into one's soul and confront the painful truths of murder, corruption and sexual depravity, don't be a schmuck -- hire the nastiest operatives money can buy and duck, dodge and spin to November.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"St. Martin's Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47127406772464,"sku":"9781429972963","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781429972963_p0.jpg?v=1769903172","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781429972963","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}