{"product_id":"gary-pemberton-is-fine-ibrahim-roble-9781966703464","title":"Gary Pemberton is Fine: Book One of the Ninth Life Series","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHe washed up on a Maine beach in a stolen tuxedo, holding a calico cat in a Hello Kitty carrier and $143,400 in cash. He could not remember his own name.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo he picked one off a cereal box.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGary Pemberton bought a shuttered bait shop in Goose Harbor, filled it with rescue cats, learned to pull a decent espresso, and set about the quiet business of disappearing. The town took him in the way small Maine towns do - with casseroles, opinions, and Edna Kowalski pronouncing his coffee \"adequate,\" which, from Edna, is a standing ovation. For a while, it works.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut Gary's hands know things his head doesn't. They know sightlines and exits. They can pin-bone a fish in eleven seconds and put a menacing stranger on the floor with a sugar packet. And a year is a long time to stay hidden.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen a bishop chess piece slides under the door at three in the morning, a man in chinos orders a flat white, and a woman with a leather jacket and a missing kidney rents the apartment above the bookstore, the people who lost Gary Pemberton have finally come to collect. The problem is, the town that took him in has no intention of handing him back - and neither do the cats.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eGary Pemberton Is Fine\u003c\/i\u003e is the first novel in \u003cb\u003eThe Ninth Life\u003c\/b\u003e series: a cozy thriller about an amnesiac operative, a Maine cat cafe, and the small town that accidentally becomes his counterintelligence network. Funny, warm, and patient as a sleeping cat with one eye open.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePerfect for readers who love: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe dry wit of Mick Herron's \u003ci\u003eSlow Horses\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe found-family warmth of Fredrik Backman and Richard Osman's \u003ci\u003eThe Thursday Murder Club\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA retired operative who just wants to be left alone (\u003ci\u003eJohn Wick\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNobody\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCozy mysteries where the cats have opinions and the seventy-eight-year-old widow keeps her late husband's rifle oiled\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGrab Book One and meet the quietest dangerous man in Maine - before his past finds the door he just locked.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ibrahim Roble,Ken Konet\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1966703465\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781966703464\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Humbolton Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/06\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.54lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.68d","brand":"Ibrahim Roble","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49174160933119,"sku":"9781966703464","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/gary-pemberton-is-fine-ibrahim-roble-9781966703464","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}