{"product_id":"the-dead-dont-spend-matthew-petchinsky-9798295808890","title":"The Dead Don't Spend","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen the economy collapsed, the living were no longer enough.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a desperate bid to restore production, governments turned to the only untapped resource left-the dead. Reanimated through crude science and industrial necessity, corpses became the perfect workforce: tireless, obedient, and silent.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt least, that's what they believed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNiles Harrow, a mortuary technician, witnesses the truth firsthand. Beneath the restraints and command spikes, the dead are still aware-trapped inside their decaying bodies, forced to work, forced to remember. As whispers spread among funeral workers and families, a horrifying realization takes hold: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe dead are not mindless.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey are waiting.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen the system begins to fracture, the reanimated rise-not as monsters, but as laborers driven by rage, memory, and a need for justice. Factories burn, the powerful are dragged into their own machines, and the line between victim and executioner vanishes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow, as civilization teeters on the edge of total collapse, Niles must make an impossible choice: stand with the dead who were enslaved... or protect the living from a revolution that no longer knows mercy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBecause when the dead stop working-\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNothing survives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Matthew Petchinsky\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798295808890\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Apophis Enterprises LLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/15\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 126\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.39lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.27d","brand":"Matthew Petchinsky","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49172733100287,"sku":"9798295808890","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-dead-dont-spend-matthew-petchinsky-9798295808890","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}