{ "item_title" : "The Cut", "item_author" : [" Christopher Ray "], "item_description" : "A missing moonshiner. A deputy caught between his badge and his family. And a stretch of mountain country where the law has never been as simple as right and wrong.DeKalb County deputy Claude Brewer has spent years knowing exactly what his wife's family does-and choosing not to ask questions that would force him to answer as a lawman.That arrangement ends when Phil Talley disappears.Phil left home on a routine whiskey run through the mountain country along the Alabama-Tennessee line. Days later, there is still no sign of him. Another man is missing. Someone who may know what happened has gone into hiding. And the deeper Claude looks, the more the roads Phil traveled begin to connect with names found in old law-enforcement files.Claude is no federal investigator. He is a county deputy with a wife waiting at the kitchen table, a little girl asking when her grandfather is coming home, and a family that has spent generations handling its own problems.But this one may be bigger than the family can handle.Following the trail means asking questions about men who wear badges, reopening old moonshine business that powerful people would rather leave buried, and forcing Claude to decide how far his duty reaches when the people involved are his own.And while Claude searches, word begins to travel that somebody in Alabama has started asking questions.Set in the hard mountain country of the early twentieth-century South, THE CUT is a Southern historical crime novel about moonshine, family loyalty, compromised lawmen, and the price paid when an old way of doing business finally runs into a man who refuses to stop looking.For readers who prefer crime fiction built on character, investigation, natural Southern dialogue, family pressure, and slow-building tension rather than nonstop action, THE CUT follows the case from back roads and kitchen tables into a world where nearly everyone knows part of the truth-and nearly everyone has a reason to keep part of it to themselves.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers3.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/9/79/818/276/9798182760478_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "15.99", "online_price" : "15.99", "our_price" : "15.99", "club_price" : "15.99", "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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