{"title":"John Shannon","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"the-poison-sky-paperback","title":"The Poison Sky - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Shannon has mastered the most essential element of the genre, giving us a guy we want to stand shoulder to shoulder with while we try to make sense out of a senseless universe.\" -\u003cem\u003eBooklist\u003c\/em\u003e [Starred]\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the third installment of John Shannon's celebrated Jack Liffey series, Jack's transition to the unexpected vocation of private investigator seems complete when a client desperately begs him to find her runaway teenage son. As it becomes clear that the boy has been ensnared in a cult, the client sets a nearly impossible condition: that her estranged husband must not be involved. The case promises to lead to chaos, but Jack is nevertheless compelled to try to get Jimmy Mardesich back, even as a group of thugs, as ludicrous as they are menacing, break into Jack's condo and terrorize his girlfriend Marlena.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn the heels of this attack, the private detective is forced to allow his precocious twelve-year-old daughter, Maeve, to tag along. Their search will take them from the machinations of a doomsday cult to the byzantine halls of corporate corruption and, ultimately, a potential environmental disaster of unimaginable proportions. As Otto Penzler noted when The Poison Sky was first published, \"Shannon, with his hero Jack Liffey, a knight errant cruising the L.A. freeways and frequenting the less glamorous suburbs, is squarely in the lineage of Raymond Chandler.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Jack Liffey series takes readers deep into the many unexplored communities, enclaves and cultures of Los Angeles that sometimes co-exist, sometimes clash, but always surprise. Fans of Michael Connelly will fall deep into the fast-paced, unpredictable, and dangerous world John Shannon creates.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50102567207135,"sku":"9781964008080","price":19.44,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/8FqM-ZFSsQ9781964008080.webp?v=1781083502"},{"product_id":"the-concrete-river-paperback","title":"The Concrete River - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIntroduction by David Corbett, Author of \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Book, \u003ci\u003eDone for a Dime \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter losing his aerospace job--a casualty of the \"peace dividend\" brought by the end of the Cold War--52-year-old Jack Liffey still fights his personal wars: with the bottle, his ex-wife, and his loneliness after losing custody of his precocious and beloved daughter, Maeve. Before he can surrender to a life of alcoholic cynicism, an unexpected vocation enters his life when a mysterious woman from Mexico hires Jack to find her missing daughter. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSuddenly, Jack is dealing with a real estate developer's goons, powerful politicians, and-perhaps most dangerous-his increasing feelings for a former nun who may be the key to the entire case. Armed with a small handgun and unwavering determination, Jack must rescue someone else's daughter so he can redeem his own sense of purpose and fatherhood. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Jack Liffey series takes readers deep into the many unexplored communities, enclaves and cultures of Los Angeles that sometimes co-exist, sometimes clash, but always surprise. Fans of Michael Connelly will fall deep into the fast-paced, unpredictable, and dangerous world John Shannon creates.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50103169843423,"sku":"9781964008028","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/3nurXGsaO69781964008028.webp?v=1781090420"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/john-shannon.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}