{ "item_title" : "Killer in the Retroscape", "item_author" : [" Bruce M. Perrin "], "item_description" : "2019 BRAG Medallion Honoree2019 Eric Hoffer Award, Honorable Mention - eBook Fiction 2019 Montaigne Medal Finalist for the year's most thought-provoking books In 2068 St. Louis, Missouri, Dr. Douglas (Doug) Michaels finds his lifelong friend, Josh Unger, dead in his home. When law enforcement concludes his death was a suicide, Doug and his wife, Ali, are dumbstruck; they wonder what could explain such a needlessly violent and lonely death in a future where such actions are unimaginable. Trying to unearth a killer, be it either flesh and blood or the cumulative stress of life, Doug creates a mental landscape of Josh's past, a retroscape, starting in the mid-2030s. Among its landmarks are: - An illness, sensationalized in the media as the zombie pandemic that drives a wedge between husband and wife, parents and children. - Cryptic communications between Josh and an after-life specialist who peddles immortality services. - A mysterious phrase uttered at the assassination of a government official that ties it to Josh's death 14 years later. - Josh's machine-intelligence wife, Julia, who may hold the secret to his death ... if she can only remember. In the end, determining guilt in a retroscape littered with suspects tells Doug more about humanity, technology, and himself than he ever could have imagined.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers1.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/1/73/208/351/1732083517_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "12.99", "online_price" : "12.99", "our_price" : "12.99", "club_price" : "12.99", "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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