{"product_id":"book-2ppa","title":"Dead Trial","description":"\u003cp\u003eJake Reed is a mid-list novelist who gets bored with his own hero. The hero is also named Jake. One afternoon the writer ends the book with a sudden car crash, types \"The End,\" and drives to Starbucks to meet his publisher. On the way, he dies in the same stupid crash.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe wakes in a courtroom built from leftover scenes. Every character he ever invented is in the gallery. The charge is the unnecessary murder of his main character. The plaintiff is Jake himself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwo discarded characters serve as the lawyers. Witnesses walk in from the trash folder. A talking cat has opinions. A forgotten dog does not need a speech. The jury is a knight, a paper draft, a knitting grandmother, and other people Jake abandoned when the work got hard.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e Dead Trial\u003c\/em\u003e is a courtroom comedy about lazy endings, leftover pages, and a writer who has to answer for the people he threw away.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"INAudio","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":67872926761264,"sku":"BD2ppa","price":8.54,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/2ppa-Square-cover.webp?v=1790615604","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-2ppa","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}