{"product_id":"9781941298008","title":"Criss Cross","description":"“Simply tremendous! Tom Kakonis’s writing is on a level with Elmore Leonard.”\u003cp\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCRISS CROSS\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt’s a bone-chilling winter in Grand Rapids. Ex-cop Mitch Morse is stuck in a dreary, dead-end job at a discount store so he can’t resist when a smoldering, sexy cashier Starla Hudek asks him to join a gang of down-to-their-last-chance killers and criminals ready to do whatever it takes to pull off the score of a lifetime on Christmas Eve.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Stylishly flamboyant…Kakonis has honed his skills at locking violent characters into harrowing, if often hilarious, straits.” – New York Times\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt begins as an audacious armored car heist…but then things go ho-ho-horribly wrong, and the lust, greed, and scheming spirals out of control, the criss-crossing loyalties and betrayals tightening like a noose around Mitch’s neck.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Tom Kakonis, a poet of raunch, brings to life the misfits and desperate dreamers who inhabit the shadowy side of a ‘vanilla milkshake town’…Deft plotting, in-depth characterization and devilish humor add up to a riveting read.” – Publisher’s Weekly.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Brash Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47040483950832,"sku":"9781941298008","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781941298008_p0.jpg?v=1763755413","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781941298008","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}