{"product_id":"third-and-dead-david-c-witte-9798186059899","title":"Third and Dead","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe fantasy football championship came down to 3.18 points. A garbage-time catch. A lateral nobody called. Jake Malone watched it happen on his phone at a Chicago bar while his league chat filled with memes and Ethan Carter climbed a barstool to accept his third consecutive title.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNobody died. It was just a game.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJake knows that.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe is forty-one, a cybersecurity director at a financial firm, a man who has spent his career understanding how systems fail and who is responsible when they do. He understands identity. He understands attribution. He understands how a story, told the right way, can make the author invisible.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe uses all of it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThird and Dead\u003c\/i\u003e follows Jake's descent from wounded pride to something the country will spend months arguing about. It is told alongside FBI Special Agent Sarah Kessler, who is assembling the case one careful inference at a time, and Lisa, Jake's wife, who saw something wrong before anyone else and could not stop what was already in motion.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA novel about humiliation and narrative. About the gap between a man's self-image and his behavior. About how ordinary people become the things they never planned to become, one reasonable decision at a time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David C. Witte\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798186059899\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/07\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 378\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.94d","brand":"David C. Witte","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49097401204991,"sku":"9798186059899","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/third-and-dead-david-c-witte-9798186059899","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}