{"product_id":"9781618271037","title":"Whistle Stop in Space: Further Adventures of Manning Draco, Volume 2","description":"Great Fomalhaut! Manning Draco is back! In Once Upon a Star, the interstellar insurance detective tackled a variety of weird con men and scammers throughout the 35th-century Galactic Federation. Now he returns in three further adventures, as a government agent sent to foil an anti-Federationist plot. The concluding story features a spoof of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer, and reveals how Manning became the only Terran to develop a secondary mind shield against the telepathic powers of other races in the Federation.\u003cp\u003eKendell Foster Crossen, a mainstay of the science fiction pulps in the 1950s, also published over forty-five detective and spy novels under a variety of pseudonyms, including M.E. Chaber, Christopher Monig, Richard Foster, and others.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Altus Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47037886300400,"sku":"9781618271037","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781618271037_p0.jpg?v=1763858507","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781618271037","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}