{"product_id":"the-smack-9780316327619","title":"The Smack","description":"Rowan Petty is a conman down on his luck. He's flat broke, living out of cheap hotels, and wondering how it all went wrong. His car quits on him in Reno, and he takes a job there on the bottom rung of a lousy phone scam. When he's not swindling lonely widows, he tries to turn nickels into dimes at the poker table. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e One snowy night, he crosses paths with a sweet-talking hooker who's tired of the streets, and sparks fly. When an old friend of his turns up spreading a rumor about two million dollars in army money smuggled out of Afghanistan and stashed in an apartment in Los Angeles, it seems like a chance at the score of a lifetime. So Petty and the hooker head south, and straight into trouble. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A wounded vet, a washed-up actor, and Petty's estranged daughter are all players in the dangerous game they find themselves caught up in. For the winner: a fortune. For the loser: a bullet to the head. Propulsive, suspenseful, and written with a searing lyricism, \u003ci\u003eThe Smack\u003c\/i\u003e shows once again that \"Lange is a writer firing on all cylinders who belongs in the top tier of novelists working today\" ( \u003ci\u003eOmaha World-Herald\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Mulholland Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/24\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780316327619\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 368\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.40w x 1.00d","brand":"Richard Lange","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52403350306997,"sku":"9780316327619","price":18.69,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_dfd006c2-c78c-49a0-b893-d0773a4451b9.jpg?v=1774968886","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-smack-9780316327619","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}