{"product_id":"9781466860537","title":"Out There in the Dark: A Novel","description":"OpenRoad - \u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eOut There in the Dark\u003c\/i\u003e is an old school Hollywood blockbuster. . . . A terrific, grab-you-by-the-throat movieland epic.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e   ---Jerry Stahl, author of \u003ci\u003ePermanent Midnight\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e   Since leaving Berlin, the proud, distinguished émigré director Dieter Seife has had to content himself cranking out B movies for Superior Pictures in Hollywood during World War II. Finally, Superior's founder, Arthur Lustig, gives Seife the chance to prove himself on a lavish, three-hankie \"woman's picture\" titled \u003ci\u003eThe Big Betrayal\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e   Set to star is Harley Hayden, the young (and 4-F) actor who's engaged to Lustig's daughter. Though the town's biggest names are in uniform, Seife is convinced he can find a better male lead for his movie. Hayden counters by hiring a disgraced ex-cop named Roarke to look into Seife's private life---does the secretive German have something to hide? What Roarke uncovers is dangerous, disturbing . . . and, maybe, a very different mystery than it seems. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e   With its atmosphere of lockstep patriotism and rampant paranoia, Wesley Strick's \u003ci\u003eOut There in\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003ethe Dark\u003c\/i\u003e provocatively speaks to our own time even as it brings to life the sordid side of 1940's Hollywood.","brand":"Thomas Dunne Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47129778192624,"sku":"9781466860537","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781466860537_p0.jpg?v=1769891597","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781466860537","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}