{"product_id":"cafe-noir-ross-c-hardy-9781505317947","title":"Cafe Noir: A Dystopian Satire","description":"\"After the ruinous Brand Wars, Krater's Koffee is the most powerful corporate superpower in this polluted, privatized, brutalized, and thoroughly GMO'd consumer-capitalist culture...Krater refined how to give the teeming masses their coffee fixes via vapor-inhalers--to the point that drinking liquid in an old fashioned mug is considered a dangerous, rebellious act sometimes enjoyed in underground competitions... In this dystopia, barista Argo Jones is a lifelong Krater employee and true believer, having been sponsored out of childhood poverty by the company and given Krater's cybernetic implants and combat training to work the front line as a coffee tech\/server. But when his franchise is devastated by a lethal product contamination, management orders Jones into the chaotic streets--where average folk are bombarded by holographic commercials and neuro-implant ad blockers are a necessity--in order to draw out the subversives thought responsible... In this nightmare society, cat meat is a fast-food staple, intelligent (and insulting) seagulls are employed as couriers, and actors are lab-grown in vats...Don't be surprised if this bitter brew keeps you up all night.\" --Kirkus Reviews\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ross C. Hardy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1505317940\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781505317947\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Createspace Independent Publishing Platform\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/12\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 276\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.61lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.99h x 5.00w x 0.58d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2015","brand":"Ross C. Hardy","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48459131388159,"sku":"9781505317947","price":11.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_65848b62-cf28-4703-99a2-db89a2cfa226.jpg?v=1777408144","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/cafe-noir-ross-c-hardy-9781505317947","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}