{"product_id":"9781942712824","title":"X's For Eyes","description":"Brothers Macbeth and Drederick Tooms should have it made as fair-haired scions of an impossibly rich and powerful family of industrialists. Alas, life is complicated in mid-1950s USA when you're child heirs to the throne of Sword Enterprises, a corporation that has enshrined Machiavelli's The Prince as its operating manual and whose patriarch believes, Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds, would be a swell company logo.\u003cp\u003eConsider also those long, cruel winters at the Mountain Leopard boarding school for assassins in the Himalayas, or that Dad may be a supervillain, while an uncle occasionally slaughters his nephews and nieces for sport; and the space flight research division of Sword Enterprises \"accidentally\" sent a probe through a wormhole into outer darkness and contacted an alien god. Now a bloodthirsty cult and an equally vicious rival firm suspect the Tooms boys know something and will spare no expense, nor innocent life, to get their claws on them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBetween the machinations of the disciples of black gods and good old corporate skullduggery, it's winding up to be of a hell of a summer vacation for the lads.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"JournalStone","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47040645529840,"sku":"9781942712824","price":9.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781942712824_p0.jpg?v=1763758327","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781942712824","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}