{"product_id":"deviant-acts-paperback","title":"Deviant Acts - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA haunted, heroin-addicted Vietnam vet's new PI gig might turn his life around--or end it: \"[Hurst] is crazy as a loon, funny as hell, and deadly serious.\" --Sterling Watson, author of \u003ci\u003eNight Letter\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Jackson Hurst is not in a good place. The only thing that eases the pain is the heroin he's been addicted to since his time in Vietnam--and it's already cost him his job and his girlfriend. The downward spiral is only going to continue unless something changes. Then he's given an opportunity by his aunt Camille, a Vermont millionaire who wants to hire Jackson to rescue her twenty-year-old daughter from kidnappers. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Camille will spare no expense to get Cheryl back--she also wants the kidnappers dead. And Jackson desperately needs the money. The question is whether he can stay clean long enough to do the job--and more importantly, whether he can bring himself to kill again . . . \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e From the award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eNisei\u003c\/i\u003e and other novels, this is both a gritty detective story and a portrait of one down-and-out man's quest for redemption in 1970s America.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67575982588127,"sku":"9781504077934","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/lR20uk7oKG9781504077934.webp?v=1790376847","url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/products\/deviant-acts-paperback","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}