{"product_id":"9781504011419","title":"King Coffin: A Novel","description":"\u003cb\u003eInspired by the infamous case of Leopold and Loeb, \u003ci\u003eKing Coffin \u003c\/i\u003eis a chilling glimpse into the mind of a twisted genius\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The sun is setting over Harvard, and Jasper Ammen is not impressed. A brilliant student who loathes all that the world has put before him, he gazes with contempt at the beauty of the campus, the intellectual pretensions of his fellow students, and the gaudiness of the sunset, for none of these approaches the majesty of Jasper’s mind. A reader of Nietzsche and Stirner, he is convinced of his own superiority, and has decided to prove it in the most irrefutable manner: with the perfect murder.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Ammen will choose his victim at random and commit the unsolvable crime before a host of witnesses who will see what happens but not be able to understand it. Only his closest friends will realize that he has gotten away with murder, and they won’t be able to stop him or see him punished for the ghastly deed.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e An intense and disturbing portrait of rationalism taken to a dangerous extreme, \u003ci\u003eKing Coffin \u003c\/i\u003eranks alongside the works of Henry James and Fyodor Dostoevsky as a masterpiece of psychological realism.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Open Road Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47180272107760,"sku":"9781504011419","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781504011419_p0.jpg?v=1769897047","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781504011419","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}