{"product_id":"9781466879645","title":"Prodigy: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"If the characters from \u003ci\u003eLess Than Zero\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eSecret History\u003c\/i\u003e woke up in a novel by Philip K. Dick, they'd get along famously with the precocious students of Stansbury.\"\u003cbr\u003e–Dustin Thomason, bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Rule of Four\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA thriller set in the future at an ultra-elite prep school that asks: what is the price of perfection?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the year 2036, the world's best boarding school is the Stansbury School. The students, better known as specimens, are screened at a young age and then given twelve years of the finest education -- and developmental drug regiment --available. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eStansbury graduates -- physically and mentally -- are in a class all by themselves. Four out of five go on to Harvard, Yale or Princeton; twenty out of the top thirty Forbes 500 companies have Stansbury CEOs, eight graduates have become U. S. Senators, and two sit on the Supreme Court.  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut when a string of alumni are murdered, school officials -- looking to avoid a public relations disaster -- decide to keep the police in the dark.  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey discreetly ask the school's Valedictorian to solve the mystery, but he discovers that the most obvious culprit (the school's resident chemically imbalanced delinquent -- and the Valedictorian's nemesis) is being framed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTogether, the two unlikely allies uncover a massive conspiracy that reaches to the highest levels of the Stansbury administration and the United States government. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eA riveting thriller about America's obsession with genius and the potential of youth, Dave Kalstein's \u003ci\u003eProdigy\u003c\/i\u003e is not only a chilling vision of the very near future, it's an authentic coming-of-age story for the 21st Century.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"St. Martin's Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47179220975856,"sku":"9781466879645","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781466879645_p0.jpg?v=1769892092","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781466879645","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}