{"product_id":"9781480440241","title":"Jerry Tracy, Celebrity Reporter","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eManhattan’s sharpest gossip columnist tangles with brawlers, triggermen, and dames\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe most important people in the world come to Broadway—to eat in restaurants, dance in nightclubs, and die in rain-slicked back alleys. Whatever the big names are doing, Jerry Tracy hears about it—and tells the world in his infamous \u003ci\u003eDaily Planet\u003c\/i\u003e column. As quick with his typewriter as he is with a .45, Tracy can break a nose as easily as he breaks a news story. But beneath his hard exterior, this columnist has a kind heart, and a sense of justice that will make him do crazy things for a woman in trouble, or a friend with a murder rap hanging over his head.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFeaturing every Jerry Tracy story ever published in \u003ci\u003eBlack Mask\u003c\/i\u003e , this collection is an invaluable compendium of one of early noir’s most original heroes. Written in machine gun prose that would make Damon Runyon proud, these stories describe a man whose words are tough—and whose fists are even tougher.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book features an introduction by Boris Dralyuk.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Road Integrated Media LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47056359129328,"sku":"9781480440241","price":32.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781480440241_p0.jpg?v=1763619534","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781480440241","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}