{"product_id":"the-poison-sky-9781964008080","title":"The Poison Sky","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\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.\" --\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e [Starred]\u003c\/b\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\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 \u003ci\u003eThe Poison Sky\u003c\/i\u003e 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\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\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Unnamed Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/04\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781964008080\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 250","brand":"John Shannon","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51708013445301,"sku":"9781964008080","price":15.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_a7f46697-8c6c-43d8-a5dc-ff060a2926f0.jpg?v=1757397058","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-poison-sky-9781964008080","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}