{"product_id":"james-c-cornwallis-twoblunt-marley-9798296704993","title":"James C. Cornwallis: The Man with No Shoes","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTitle: The Man With No Shoes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKensley City, 1994. The trains run on time, the headlines shout about gang sweeps and political brawls, and winter presses against the skyline with a kind of gray persistence. In the middle of it all, eighteen-year-old private investigator \u003cb\u003eJames Cornwallis\u003c\/b\u003e is trying to keep his grades up, keep his temper down, and keep the lights on at his tiny office. When a worried sister asks him to find her missing brother-a gentle, memory-fractured man named \u003cb\u003eCharlie\u003c\/b\u003e-James takes the case without hesitation. People like Charlie never get priority from the city. But they always get it from him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJames starts with the usual legwork: the riverfront, the treatment plant, the half-renovated construction site Charlie used to cut through on his daily walks. But the deeper James goes, the clearer it becomes that this isn't a disappearance driven by malice or crime. It's a disappearance driven by \u003cb\u003efear\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA janitor whispers about Charlie seeing \"something bad.\" Teenagers brag about tossing rocks near a worksite. A foreman remembers tools falling from a roof and a terrified man stumbling away. None of it lines up cleanly, yet the emotional shape is unmistakable: Charlie wasn't wandering. He was running-from a moment he misunderstood, a moment that overwhelmed him, a moment that made the world too loud to bear.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJames's investigation becomes a reconstruction of Charlie's sensory landscape. Step by step, he maps panic, isolation, and the fragile patterns that anchor people who live with mental strain. The closer he gets, the more James sees himself reflected-his own fears, his own need for control, his own longing to protect those the system ignores.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith help from his chaotic foster brother Reggie, the unshakable Miss Del, and his sharp-tongued friend Nadi, James finally finds Charlie hiding where no one thought to look. What follows isn't a cinematic showdown, but a quiet, truth-centered conversation-one that tests James's empathy and sets the emotional compass for the man he's becoming.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Twoblunt Marley\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798296704993\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/05\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 144\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.44lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.34d","brand":"Twoblunt Marley","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49170003296511,"sku":"9798296704993","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/james-c-cornwallis-twoblunt-marley-9798296704993","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}