{"product_id":"9781466881105","title":"No Brakes: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eA vintage car rally in Northern Ireland--a three-day race over rough country roads through hostile territory where armed patrols shoot to kill. An American woman of a certain age, clever and independent, is along for the ride, co-driver and navigator to a charming narcissist who is also her son's best friend. She has known Ludo since he was a boy--knows, too, that their affair is forbidden ground. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe is a sensualist, selfish but magnetic. Life, death, sex, politics--all are no more than entertainments to him. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDangers erupt. Police respond to a bomb threat. Rumors spread. One of the cars may be carrying explosives. Warnings come that a bridge is mined, a road booby-trapped. And a wild young British princess, driving incognito in a competing car, may be the target of terrorists. May be a terrorist herself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd tying uncontrolled rumor to barely repressed violence: the cynical manipulation of big money, willing to trade in anything--drugs, arms, nuclear fules, human lives. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMoving as swiftly as the race it runs, \u003ci\u003eNo Brakes\u003c\/i\u003e is a taut, erotic thriller in which speed, danger, and passion are players in a sinister game no one can win.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Holt, Henry \u0026 Company, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47143930953968,"sku":"9781466881105","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781466881105_p0.jpg?v=1769892133","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781466881105","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}