{"product_id":"the-poison-sky-paperback","title":"The Poison Sky - 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\u003eJohn Shannon\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Shannon has mastered the most essential element of the genre, giving us a guy we want to stand shoulder to shoulder with while we try to make sense out of a senseless universe.\" -\u003cem\u003eBooklist\u003c\/em\u003e [Starred]\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the third installment of John Shannon's celebrated Jack Liffey series, Jack's transition to the unexpected vocation of private investigator seems complete when a client desperately begs him to find her runaway teenage son. As it becomes clear that the boy has been ensnared in a cult, the client sets a nearly impossible condition: that her estranged husband must not be involved. The case promises to lead to chaos, but Jack is nevertheless compelled to try to get Jimmy Mardesich back, even as a group of thugs, as ludicrous as they are menacing, break into Jack's condo and terrorize his girlfriend Marlena.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn the heels of this attack, the private detective is forced to allow his precocious twelve-year-old daughter, Maeve, to tag along. Their search will take them from the machinations of a doomsday cult to the byzantine halls of corporate corruption and, ultimately, a potential environmental disaster of unimaginable proportions. As Otto Penzler noted when The Poison Sky was first published, \"Shannon, with his hero Jack Liffey, a knight errant cruising the L.A. freeways and frequenting the less glamorous suburbs, is squarely in the lineage of Raymond Chandler.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Jack Liffey series takes readers deep into the many unexplored communities, enclaves and cultures of Los Angeles that sometimes co-exist, sometimes clash, but always surprise. Fans of Michael Connelly will fall deep into the fast-paced, unpredictable, and dangerous world John Shannon creates.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 250\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.63 x 8 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 04, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47267656433913,"sku":"9781964008080","price":19.44,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/8FqM-ZFSsQ9781964008080.webp?v=1768868370","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/the-poison-sky-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}