{ "item_title" : "Assumed Risk", "item_author" : [" Wallis Deming "], "item_description" : "On a July night in 2004, the Meteor dropped its number-four sweep arm at the top of the cycle, and two people died at the Webb County fair. The state's finding was issued that October: a wrong pin, put in by the operator's own crew that February. The operator's daughter has carried the report for twenty-two years. Now she is paying to have it proven right.Cindy Foley is not buying doubt; she is buying a floor. Her father is seventy-nine and dying at home, never charged and never cleared, and hope - the one account nobody ever billed her for - has grown too expensive to keep. Confirm the file, she tells Neil Karst, so the hoping can finally stop.Karst's terms do not soften for mercy: every claim in the report cites paper, paper has a birthplace, and should the walk prove her father guilty, that is the finding she will get, measured. So on a dead midway a crew of old carnival hands pulls the tarp off the Meteor, rebuilds the number-four sweep to the state's own appendix, and runs it day and night against a chalk count - the five months of service the charge requires, run out in a spring of nights while a dying man's calendar runs the other way.Then the paper begins refusing the charge it was filed under. A maintenance book and a factory carbon agree, entry for entry, on a February nobody ever questioned. A tagged exhibit answers to a receiving date instead of a rebuild. And the pin at the bottom of it all - the part that convicted Earl Foley without a trial - was moved into place three days after the crash.Nobody killed those two people. Somebody sold their deaths an author, and a family has been paying the interest for twenty-two years.ASSUMED RISK is a fair-play mystery in the classic key - quiet, bloodless, every document in the reader's view before the answer needs it, and an ending that re-reads pages you already hold. Book Four of A Neil Karst Investigation. The case is complete inside this volume, no cliffhanger; each book stands alone, and the series opened with FACTOR OF SAFETY.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers4.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/9/79/819/022/9798190221367_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "14.99", "online_price" : "14.99", "our_price" : "14.99", "club_price" : "14.99", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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