{ "item_title" : "Searching and Fearless", "item_author" : [" Jethro LeFevre "], "item_description" : "I finished my fourth step. Took me eight months. And there's a name on it that's going to cost somebody a whole lot more than it costs me. Nine seconds, on a Tuesday night, in a church basement in Akron, Ohio. Three weeks later Danny Cobb is dead in a rooming house off Copley Road and nobody argues about it. Overdose. Forty-one years old. Prior history. There is a box for that, and Danny fits inside it without touching the sides. Ray Sutter was sitting four feet away when Danny said it. Ray is forty-seven, eleven years clean, and makes a living talking families down off the ceiling - an interventionist with a bad knee, a truck with a door that sticks, and a promise. What gets said in that basement stays in that basement. Not because of any law. Because the moment he repeats one word of it, every room in the county becomes a less safe place for a frightened person to tell the truth, including his own. So he cannot tell the detective. He cannot tell Danny's widow. He cannot tell anybody why he is asking. He has to find out what Danny wrote down without ever explaining how he knows there was something to find. What he finds is legal on paper A company with a brochure and a lawyer and a woman at the top who believes every word of it. A sober house where the manager is paid by the head. A urinalysis mill billing thousands a month for a cup. A machine that needs people to keep failing in order to keep running - and a spiral notebook, written out over eight months at eleven dollars an hour by a man who had been collecting the envelopes himself. The notebook is missing. And every week Ray says nothing, it costs somebody who is still alive. Crime fiction from inside the rooms Searching and Fearless is a novel about the price of keeping your mouth shut, narrated by a man who is funny about everything except the one thing he is not allowed to say. It is about the recovery industry, what it bills for, and who pays. It is also about the difference between a promise that protects other people and a promise that protects you - which is not a difference you can see from the inside. Ten years selling drink, sixteen years unable to stop, and ten years clean went into it. Book one of the Ray Sutter novels. A note: no real fellowship is named in these pages, and nothing in this book is medical or clinical advice.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers2.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/9/79/817/398/9798173982865_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "10.99", "online_price" : "10.99", "our_price" : "10.99", "club_price" : "10.99", "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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