{"product_id":"broken-ground-9781608093489","title":"Broken Ground","description":"\u003cb\u003eJay Porter Takes on the Brutality of Small-town Political Power and Insatiable Greed\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e At an AA meeting, handyman and part-time investigator Jay Porter meets a recovering addict who needs his help. In the midst of another grueling northern New Hampshire winter, Amy Lupus' younger sister, Emily, has gone missing from the Coos County Center, the newly opened rehab run by Jay's old nemeses, Adam and Michael Lombardi. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e As Jay begins looking into Emily's disappearance, he finds that all who knew Emily swear that she's never used drugs. She's a straight shooter and an intern at a newspaper investigating the Center and the horrendous secret hidden in it--or beneath it. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e When Jay learns of a \"missing\" hard drive, he is flung back to five years ago when his own junkie brother, Chris, found a hard drive belonging to Lombardi Construction. For years Jay assumed that the much-sought-after hard drive contained incriminating photos of Adam and Michael's father, which contributed to Chris' death. But now he believes the hard drive harbored a secret far more sinister, which the missing Lupus sister may have unwittingly discovered. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The deeper Jay digs, the more poisoned the ground gets, and the two cases become one, yielding a toxic truth with local fallout--and far-reaching ramifications. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003ePerfect for Fans of Dennis Lehane\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e While all of the novels in the Jay Porter Series stand on their own and can be read in any order, the publication sequence is: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eLamentation \u003cbr\u003e December Boys \u003cbr\u003e Give Up the Dead \u003cbr\u003e Broken Ground \u003cbr\u003e Rag and Bone\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oceanview Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/14\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781608093489\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.60d","brand":"Joe Clifford","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42429239394485,"sku":"9781608093489","price":13.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_a456f342-e85d-40a3-b45a-6d34e9b36b40.jpg?v=1664893393","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/broken-ground-9781608093489","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}