{"product_id":"9781628153293","title":"Bleeders","description":"Bad money turns unforgettably murderous in the twenty-seventh novel of the long-running, award-winning Nameless Detective series.\u003cp\u003eA simple case of blackmail gets lethally complicated when \"Nameless,\" Bill Pronzini's seasoned private-eye, exposes a nasty scam that involves junior accounts executive Jay Cohalan, his unhappy wife, and a mistress with a serious drug problem. It's the kind of case \"Nameless\" likes, because bleeders-the blackmailers, extortionists, small-time grifters, and other opportunists who prey on the weak and gullible-sit near the top of his most-worthless-human-beings list. So he contemplates with pleasure the prospect of putting another one or two of these parasites out of commission, and then returning the $75,000 in cash to its rightful owner.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Nameless\" discovers, though, that he is not going to be able so easily to close his Cohalan file-not when he finds his client face down in the middle of a four-poster bed with a bloody, powder-scorched hole behind the right ear. And only by a hair's breadth does \"Nameless\" himself escape a similar fate. Aggrieved, cut to the psychological quick by his close brush with death, \"Nameless\" embarks on a relentless hunt for his unknown assailant in San Francisco's shadowy underworld. There he encounters bleeders of every ilk-like the loan shark Nick Kinsella, drug dealer Jackie Spoons, punch-drunk boxer Zeke Mayjack, and crankhead Charlie Bright-before he tracks down his quarry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt a deserted backcountry road stop \"Nameless,\" packing his long-unused .38, attends to the last of a bad business and, in a climax as powerful as it is unexpected, finally confronts his own demons. He maybe even conquers them.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Speaking Volumes, LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47038189666544,"sku":"9781628153293","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781628153293_p0.jpg?v=1763865844","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781628153293","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}