{"product_id":"mustard-seed-tom-strelich-9781685137793","title":"Mustard Seed: A Thystopian Satire, Book 3","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eMustard Seed\u003c\/em\u003e hit it out of the park... deep emotional mining of Cold War America... brilliantly works in Walt Disney and JFK as storylines... and you don't for one second question how it all fits together.\" -Tom McCaffrey, bestselling author of \u003cem\u003eThe Claire Saga\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMr. Frostie is just a baby when his parents move, along with almost a thousand others, into the top-secret Mustard Seed time capsule. The move is occasioned by the mistaken belief that JFK's assassination puts WWIII in the thermonuclear starting blocks. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Mustard Seed they discover a massive underground complex stretching through miles of ancient lava tubes, and Mister Frostie grows up in a familiar, almost mythical mid-century small town with parks and stores and movie theatres and schools, even a miniature golf course. It's a time capsule full of people meant to preserve a tiny seed of the human experiment-just in case the human experiment blows up in the lab. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut when a teenage Mister Frostie is banished to face certain death in the radioactive-zombie-mutant-cannibal hellscape above, he learns the surface world isn't a hellscape at all but has been wobbling on above their heads the whole time. He makes it his mission to bring the people of the duck-and-cover civilization up and into the glorious, mystifying, and often dismaying world above. What could possibly go wrong?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Tom Strelich\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1685137792\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781685137793\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Black Rose Writing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/13\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 246\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.74lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56d","brand":"Tom Strelich","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48588458754303,"sku":"9781685137793","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/mustard-seed-tom-strelich-9781685137793","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}