{"product_id":"9781625264916","title":"The Girl Next Door","description":"Marty Landis is the child of a mob princess who abandons him to a Christian family living in a Russian, Jewish neighborhood in Chicago in 1951. He just wanted to take the CIA covert operation handed to him and bust \"the girl next door\" named Rossina out of a Soviet holding facility near Moscow in 1976. They'd grown up together and he'd long admired her, even after she became a covert CIA operative.\u003cp\u003eCaught up in a dead-end job after Vietnam, college, and the 73-74' recession, Marty and his best friend, Gregory, Rosinna's brother, are trained by the best in the UK (MI-6) in order to sneak into the USSR disguised as Soviet Security personnel and bust her out before she \"talks.\" He just wanted to rescue her and return home with the $250,000 reward in time for the 1976 Chicago Cubs home opener.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarty and Gregory take the mission but there is a fatal snafu in Moscow. At home, his ex-con mob boss father meet and they eventually bond as friends. But fate has something else in store after a major drawback.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Solstice Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47038086709488,"sku":"9781625264916","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781625264916_p0.jpg?v=1763863877","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781625264916","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}