{"product_id":"dead-in-the-ring-paperback","title":"Dead in the Ring - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJay Ridler\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMinneapolis, Minnesota.\u003c\/strong\u003e When the Atomic Kid dies during a championship match on local TV, pro wrestling becomes a national sensation. Now, the country wants to know-was it real? Sully Alexander, ex-juvenile delinquent and fabricator of \"true\" stories for wrestling magazines, is dispatched for his first taste of legit journalism: investigate the death of the Atomic Kid.\u003c\/p\u003eHis unique qualifications? He survived Red Wing juvenile detention facility with the Atomic Kid back in the day, and his estranged mother is Black Widow Moscow, the once-famous woman's wrestling champion turned graveyard-shift mall detective. They are reunited in the Twin Cities where Sully's grit and the Black Widow's contacts open the vault to the secret domain of wrestlers. Amid a world of lies, fantasies, and illusions, Sully discovers that in the \"fake\" world of wrestling he may end up dead for real.What folks are saying...\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eDEAD IN THE RING\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e plunges the reader into the surreal, fantastical, and brutal world of professional wrestling, following a determined-and deeply damaged-hero pursuing the truth in an arena sustained by illusion. Ridler's visceral prose and ability to create larger-than-life characters that still sweat, bleed, and suffer make this mystery compulsively readable from the opening pages to when the last body drops.\" -Kate Alice Marshall, bestselling author of \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eWHAT LIES IN THE WOODS\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Set in the relentless world of pro wrestling at its zenith (or nadir, depending on your point of view), Jason Ridler's \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eDEAD IN THE RING\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e is a brutal, intoxicating novel that grabs you in a chokehold and doesn't let go. Hardcore noir at its finest.\" - NYT-Bestselling author Elizabeth Hand, author of \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eGENERATION LOSS\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e (Cass Neary)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Nobody does hybrid quite like Jason Ridler. Part mother-and-child reunion, part epistolary, part adventures on the mat, \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eDEAD IN THE RING\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e challenges the tropes of storytelling, an iconoclast's fast-paced, no-hold's barred blend of noir and mystery; a love letter to the lost art of wrestling.\" -Joe Clifford, award-winning author of \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eSAY MY NAME\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 328\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.82 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 12, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48433431216377,"sku":"9781956957907","price":21.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/pku1lBQFsw9781956957907.webp?v=1779533660","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/dead-in-the-ring-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}