{"product_id":"the-smack-richard-lange-9780316327619","title":"The Smack","description":"Rowan Petty is a conman down on his luck. He's flat broke, living out of cheap hotels, and wondering how it all went wrong. His car quits on him in Reno, and he takes a job there on the bottom rung of a lousy phone scam. When he's not swindling lonely widows, he tries to turn nickels into dimes at the poker table. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e One snowy night, he crosses paths with a sweet-talking hooker who's tired of the streets, and sparks fly. When an old friend of his turns up spreading a rumor about two million dollars in army money smuggled out of Afghanistan and stashed in an apartment in Los Angeles, it seems like a chance at the score of a lifetime. So Petty and the hooker head south, and straight into trouble. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A wounded vet, a washed-up actor, and Petty's estranged daughter are all players in the dangerous game they find themselves caught up in. For the winner: a fortune. For the loser: a bullet to the head. Propulsive, suspenseful, and written with a searing lyricism, \u003ci\u003eThe Smack\u003c\/i\u003e shows once again that \"Lange is a writer firing on all cylinders who belongs in the top tier of novelists working today\" ( \u003ci\u003eOmaha World-Herald\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Richard Lange\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0316327611\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780316327619\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Mulholland Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/13\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 368\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.40w x 1.00d","brand":"Richard Lange","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43988124041471,"sku":"9780316327619","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_7c998193-fc33-4f72-a4f7-b61e83a7fb6b.jpg?v=1683292758","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-smack-richard-lange-9780316327619","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}