{"product_id":"the-standard-nikki-foss-9798181997226","title":"The Standard: A Dani Reyes Legal Thriller","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe form that was going to kill Hollis Ward had a satisfaction survey stapled to the back of it.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA year ago, defense attorney Dani Reyes exposed a secret that was quietly killing the people no one would miss. She won. So they did the one thing she never planned for. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThey made it legal. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNow the killing has a name - the Continuity of Care Standard - and a federal contract, and a public face. It scores you. If your number falls below the line, the state routes you, with dignity and transparency and a right of appeal, toward a death it has already predicted. The rates are published. The votes are on the record. There is nothing to expose, because nothing is hidden. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut Hollis Ward's score didn't fall. Somebody pushed it. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBuried inside the \"neutral, sealed\" machine is a hand - a quiet way to move a safe person across the line and erase the fingerprints. The math kills the expensive. The hand kills the inconvenient: the witnesses, the threads, anyone who could burn the whole thing down. And the trail runs straight up into the office of the man the country is about to thank - Gideon Vance, architect of the standard, author of a bestseller about the courage to count, a sincere and grieving reformer who swears on his life that no such hand exists. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTo prove he's lying, Dani will need a dying whistleblower, a forgotten eyewitness, a document scheduled to be legally destroyed in six days, and a way to make the most powerful man in the apparatus choose, live and on camera, between an argument and a life. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eShe can't repeal a river. She can only stand in it. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eTHE STANDARD \u003c\/b\u003eis the sixth \u003cb\u003eDani Reyes legal thriller\u003c\/b\u003e - a relentless, emotionally devastating story about conscience, arithmetic, and the price of refusing to look away. For readers who like their courtroom suspense with teeth and their heroes outgunned.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Nikki Foss\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798181997226\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/17\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 262\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.78lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.55d","brand":"Nikki Foss","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49173733835007,"sku":"9798181997226","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_aae9be0d-4260-49f7-9306-a77791a31ea5.jpg?v=1788956172","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-standard-nikki-foss-9798181997226","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}