{"product_id":"9781934733554","title":"Houdini Pie","description":"BOOTLEGGING, BARNSTORMING and a Hard-Rock BOONDOOGLE.\u003cp\u003eLos Angeles, 1934: Based on a true chapter of California history, Houdini Pie explores the depths to which a family, and a city, will sink when hard luck comes knocking and there's nothing left to lose. Young Hal Gates is a celebrated pitcher for an upstart rural ball club, and the son of a notorious booze smuggler who vanished at the end of Prohibition. At his lonely mother's urging, and with the desperate backing of the municipal powers-that-be, he teams up with a crackpot geologist to mine for a mythical Hopi treasure trove buried miles beneath the downtown streets. The deeper they tunnel the more Hal learns about loyalty, treachery, hunger and hope, and mostly--in ways he never would have imagined--about love.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bennett \u0026 Hastings Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47056227303664,"sku":"9781934733554","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781934733554_p0.jpg?v=1763642259","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781934733554","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}