{"product_id":"9781462825110","title":"The Last Place God Made","description":"\u003cp\u003eNicholas Madrid, Tucson private investigator, thought he had seen it all, but his most bizarre case yet begins when dark-haired, long-legged Lucia Calderon asks Nick to find her missing little brother.  What Nick ultimately finds, will change the \"Old Pueblo\" forever.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The puzzling mystery begins with a girl who is killed twice!  Was Cindy Dexter killed during a cult ritual, or was she murdered to cover up an even more heinous crime?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Cindy's murder also triggers a macabre chain of events that include:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e -  the murders of three innocent people; \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e -  the discovery of an efficient, high-profit drug smuggling ring;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e -  the unholy activities of a Satanic cult linked directly to organized crime; \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e -  and the shattering revelation that some of the city's most powerful and influential businessmen belong to a secret society of pedophiles.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e On the trail of a frightened teenager, coerced into participating in a ritualistic murder, Nick delves deeper and deeper into a labyrinthine cobweb of treacherous lies, deception, and brutal murders.  Before he can prove a naive boy's innocence, Nick must first unravel a nightmarish maze that stretches from the mayor's office to the seedy back alleys of Tucson--the sunshine land of saguaros, roadrunners, and retirees.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e After Lucia Calderon is kidnapped, Nick is forced into a violent confrontation with one of the drug world's most ruthless and deadliest drug emperors, a Colombian named Santiago Robles.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e In order to save his beautiful client's life, Nick Madrid must journey to a desolate, forgotten Arizona town, Ultimo Lugar, perched on the Mexican border--a forbidden drug smuggler's haven that lies between heaven and hell and is sagely referred to by the locals as...THE LAST PLACE GOD MADE.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Xlibris US","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47143834157296,"sku":"9781462825110","price":9.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781462825110_p0.jpg?v=1763678144","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781462825110","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}