{"product_id":"9781465320261","title":"The Underground Asylum","description":"\u003cp\u003eMARK CONLAN, and his son, JESSE, move to California after Mark's messy divorce.  Mark buys extensive acreage adjoining a twenty-two thousand acre wilderness area, near San Francisco.\u003c\/p\u003e          \u003cp\u003eDecapitated murder victims are discovered on and around Mark's property.  Mark falls in love with a widowed neighbor, JUANITA VARGAS.  Jesse explores the hills and mountains on their property.  ROOSTER MADSON and WHEELS WHEELER, two homicide detectives are unable to solve the series of murders.\u003c\/p\u003e          \u003cp\u003eJesse stumbles upon a vast underground cave complex on their property.  He and Mark attempt to explore the cave but are driven out due to their inexperience.  Mark hires a private detective, ACE BALLARD, who just happens to be a spelunker, to investigate two hostile neighbors.  Soon Jesse is kidnapped.  Mark and Ace explore the cave and are attacked by the killer.  They find five mummified heads in the cave--their identities unknown.\u003c\/p\u003e          \u003cp\u003eMark and Ace are trapped in the cave and a horrifying game of cat-and-mouse ensues with the elusive killer.  Rooster enters the cave and disappears.  The murderer,cornered in his underground lair, is killed--the case apparently solved.  Then the surprising mastermind emerges, re-igniting the chase.  The riddle of Jesse's fate is finally determined in the story's exciting climax.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Xlibris US","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47176878293232,"sku":"9781465320261","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781465320261_p0.jpg?v=1763683748","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781465320261","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}