{"product_id":"book-9738","title":"The Lesser Dead","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"As much F. Scott Fitzgerald as Dean Koontz\" (#1 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author Patricia Briggs), Christopher Buehlman excels in twisting the familiar into newfound dread in his genre-bending novels. Now the acclaimed author of \u003ci\u003eThose across the River \u003c\/i\u003edelivers his most disquieting tale yet.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe secret is, vampires are real and I am one.\u003cbr\u003e The secret is, I'm stealing from you what is most truly yours and I'm not sorry…\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNew York City in 1978 is a dirty, dangerous place to live-and die. Joey Peacock knows this as well as anybody-he has spent the last forty years as an adolescent vampire, perfecting the routine he now enjoys: womanizing in punk clubs and discotheques, feeding by night, and sleeping by day with others of his kind in the macabre labyrinth under the city's sidewalks.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe subways are his playground and his highway, shuttling him throughout Manhattan to bleed the unsuspecting in the Sheep Meadow of Central Park or in the backseats of Checker cabs, or even those in their own apartments who are too hypnotized by sitcoms to notice him opening their windows. It's almost too easy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUntil one night he sees them hunting on his beloved subway. The children with the merry eyes. Vampires, like him … or not like him. Whatever they are, whatever their appearance means, the undead in the tunnels of Manhattan are not as safe as they once were.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd neither are the rest of us.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Blackstone Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49300465385776,"sku":"BD9738","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio CD","offer_id":49300465418544,"sku":"ZE9738","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio MP3-CD [ZM]","offer_id":49300465451312,"sku":"ZM9738","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/9738-Square-cover.jpg?v=1775738921","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-9738","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}