{"product_id":"dont-step-into-my-office-9781648211492","title":"Don't Step Into My Office","description":"\u003cb\u003eA gripping debut novel of literary suspense and an astute portrait of the hidden violence of wealth. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAspiring writer and general layabout Jacob Garlicker doesn't expect--walking along the beach on the night of his twenty-sixth birthday--to witness a murder. After a hapless attempt to help the victim, Jacob decides to forget the incident entirely. And for a while, he does, returning to his bohemian life in NYC as if nothing of consequence had occurred. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSeven years later, Jacob is blissfully married. Now \u003ci\u003emostly\u003c\/i\u003e sober, and \u003ci\u003emostly\u003c\/i\u003e at peace with his failed writing career, he's feeling alright as he heads to his father-in-law's birthday celebration in the Hamptons, even as he knows the well-heeled WASPs that populate his in-laws' social circle will spend the weekend treating him with polite disdain. However, everything shifts when Jacob arrives in the Hamptons and begins to realize that those well-heeled WASPs are not as harmless as they seem. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOver the course of this propulsive, at times blackly comic narrative, Jacob wavers between addled narcissism and earnest commitment as he searches for the brutal, booze-soaked truth. Indebted to the suspenseful, page-turning plotwork of Patricia Highsmith and Emma Cline, \u003ci\u003eDon't Step into My Office\u003c\/i\u003e is a richly imagined literary puzzle of mesmerizing intrigue.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Arcade Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/13\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781648211492\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 360\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.06lbs","brand":"David Fishkind","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52034445213877,"sku":"9781648211492","price":25.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_6807c774-271d-4fb5-bbe0-eef5d617a747.jpg?v=1763594292","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/dont-step-into-my-office-9781648211492","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}