{"product_id":"9781504040419","title":"The Panama Portrait","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom a three-time Edgar Award–winning author: Local rituals and a lost painting draw a New York businessman into intrigue on a remote Pacific island.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Ben Smith, a market researcher from New York City, has arrived on Santo Stefano, an island two hundred miles off the coast of Peru. At the behest of his company’s seafood division, he’s gauging the potential profitability of the island’s abundance of rock lobsters. Encouraging a little tin-pot country to draw foreign investment should be a breeze—a beautiful one, too, berthed, as he is, in such an exotic locale.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e But Ben’s interests are soon divided between the seductive Infanta Elissa, daughter of the island’s powerful guano king, and another American tourist who has come in search of a reportedly lost and invaluable Panama portrait painted by French post-Impressionist artist Paul Gauguin. And something sinister is taking over Santo Stefano. The locals call it \u003ci\u003efesta brava\u003c\/i\u003e, a ritualistic hanging ceremony, dating back centuries, in which competitors test their courage against the gallows. Whether you survive or not, it’s said to be the ultimate experience.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e As an undercurrent of violence and unease rises closer to the surface, Ben wonders what else awaits him on the island, how it will change him, and how far he’ll be expected to go on a journey of adventure, self-exploration, and absolute fear.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e From a Mystery Writers of America Grand Master, \u003ci\u003eThe Panama Portrait\u003c\/i\u003e is “a [spellbinding], sophisticated, barbaric, and hypnotic” thriller (\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e).","brand":"MysteriousPress.com\/Open Road","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47143305052400,"sku":"9781504040419","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781504040419_p0.jpg?v=1763711057","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781504040419","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}