{"product_id":"9781504000185","title":"An Affair of Sorcerers","description":"\u003cb\u003eWhen a circus-performer-turned-PI is drawn into the occult underworld, the result is “beautifully plotted and assured” (#1 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e–bestselling author Peter Straub).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e With a genius IQ, a past career as a circus acrobat, and a black belt in karate, criminology professor Dr. Robert Frederickson—better known as “Mongo the Magnificent”—has a decidedly unusual background for a private investigator. He also just so happens to be a dwarf.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Mongo needs all his faculties when he’s hired to investigate a fellow professor who’s been experimenting with sensory deprivation. Soon after, a nun asks him to help clear a psychic of murder. And then, weirdest of all, his seven-year-old neighbor, Kathy, begs him to locate her father’s “Book of Shadows.”\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e When Mongo finds Kathy’s father dead from what seems to be a ritual sacrifice—and the little girl lying comatose nearby—the distressed detective follows a trail of occult clues and discovers that all three of his cases are tied to something wicked. Now, to save Kathy from an unnatural end, Mongo will risk it all to separate the facts from something even stranger than fiction.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e An Affair of Sorcerers \u003ci\u003eis the 3rd book in the Mongo Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Beautifully plotted and assured . . . The work of a master.” —#1 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e–bestselling author Peter Straub","brand":"MysteriousPress.com\/Open Road","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47183884157168,"sku":"9781504000185","price":9.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781504000185_p0.jpg?v=1769896977","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781504000185","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}