{"product_id":"9781945181214","title":"Patchworks","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAMERICA’S NEXT GUN MASSACRE IS IN-EVITABLE, UNLESS GOVERNMENT INTERN \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGABRIEL DUNNE \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCAN MAKE A MIRACLE OF HIS ODD JOBS IN WASHINGTON, DC.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGabriel Dunne’s federal internship has him tracking gun violence in America. But before he can start, his boss Chloe tasks him with planning her wedding; Parker wants help seducing their fellow intern; security chief Hubbard hounds him about expired passwords; the shredder guy needs saving from his deadly machine; and Congress threatens a government shutdown that’ll send them all packing. When a colleague is victimized by just the kind of violence their office exists to prevent, these ordinary bureaucrats must fight back, or become statistics in America’s next mad shooting spree.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eI should tell you this right now. I don’t think it’s going to stick. Your report won’t get past Dvorak, never mind Ms. Marci. And the seventh floor…” She shook her head. “But I do want to say this. You’re the first person to stand up to those arrogant, racist pricks at the NRA and K Street by at least putting truth to paper.” She nodded before turning away. She stopped.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eAnd if there’s anything I can do to help.” \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eI still have to get it all down. I still have some work to do. But I thought, even before you said so, I knew the chances of getting it through were sl\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eim. So, if there’s another way…”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLaRhonda smiled. “You a very discreet young man. Talk like that, you may not need those supplies very long. Destined for things greater than this office.”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eOr my demise.”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eIt’s a lose-lose world.”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A lively, moving book in the tradition of Joseph Heller… this page-turner has great heart.”—\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eTony D'Souza, author of\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eWhiteman\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eMule.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“One of those need-to-read books — Ben East, with a penchant for authentic dialogue, acerbic commentary on the government's inability to govern, and a searing end-game, serves up an indictment and, ultimately, a call to arms.”—\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eKarl Luntta, author of \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eKnow It by Heart\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e and \u003cem\u003eSwimming.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“East constructs narratives as a cinematographer might, only cinema would not pack the same wallop with tone-perfect lines like: ‘The shredder guy in the no-water room whose name nobody could remember…’”—\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eDaniel Whitman, author of Answer Coming Soon\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eBlaming No One.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Powerful and funny and horribly relevant.”—\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003ePreston Lang, author of The Sin Tax and The Blind Rooster.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A tragicomic requiem for America—a once shining dream of democracy that has fallen prey to its own bureaucratic government that operates ‘besides the people, despite the people, and against the people.’ ”—\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eDavid Suarez Gomez, author of Heaven Is Coming Home.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Moonshine Cove Publishing, LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47039993610480,"sku":"9781945181214","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781945181214_p0.jpg?v=1763795223","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781945181214","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}