{"product_id":"9781984819581","title":"The Reckoning: A Novel","description":"They call themselves the Brethren: three disgraced former judges doing time in a Florida federal prison.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne was sent up for tax evasion. Another, for skimming bingo profits. And the third, for a career-ending drunken joyride.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMeeting daily in the prison law library, taking exercise walks in their boxer shorts, these judges-turned-felons can reminisce about old court cases, dispense a little jailhouse justice, and contemplate where their lives went wrong.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOr they can use their time in prison to get very rich -- very fast. And so they sit, sprawled in the prison library, furiously writing letters, fine-tuning a wickedly brilliant extortion scam ... while events outside their prison walls begin to erupt.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA bizarre presidential election is holding the nation in its grips -- and a powerful government figure is pulling some very hidden strings. For the Brethren, the timing couldn't be better. Because they've just found the perfect victim...","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47044509237488,"sku":"9781984819581","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781984819581_p0.jpg?v=1763671912","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781984819581","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}