{"product_id":"emp-jasper-cole-9798181823075","title":"Emp: Mercy Road: A Post-Apocalyptic Action Thriller","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn a world where the lights went out and never came back, one man carries the only thing worth keeping.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKale Dryer had everything until a drugged stranger took it away in two gunshots. As the woman he loves dies in his arms on a dead city street, she uses her final breath to ask him for something almost impossible in a world gone feral.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBe merciful.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShattered by grief, Kale buries her beneath an old oak tree and sets out across the war torn ruins of America with an AR-15, a Glock, and a promise he is not sure he can keep. The road ahead is ruled by wolves. Raiders who burn settlements. Warlords who trade in human suffering. Broken men who would kill him for the food on his back.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut everywhere Kale goes, he hears her last word echoing in his skull. And one act of mercy at a time, he discovers that kindness in a brutal world is not weakness. It is the most defiant, most powerful force left on earth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom a starving old man at a stream, to a mute boy abandoned in the ruins, to an entire valley enslaved beneath a tyrant's boot, Kale's mercy begins to spread. It frees the captive. It redeems the killer. It heals the wounded. And it slowly, impossibly, begins to bring a dead world back toward the light.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYet the road has one final test waiting. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA test that will ask Kale whether mercy can be shown even to the man who deserves it least.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jasper Cole\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798181823075\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/16\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 184\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.97lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.39d","brand":"Jasper Cole","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49173723087103,"sku":"9798181823075","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/emp-jasper-cole-9798181823075","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}