{"product_id":"book-ao58","title":"Total Recall","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe bestselling V.I. Warshawski novels have dazzled readers and earned the acclaim of critics everywhere. “V.I. Warshawski rules,” writes \u003ci\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/i\u003e, crowning her “the most engaging woman in detective fiction.” Of V.I.’s creator, the \u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e says “Sara Paretsky has no peer.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow Paretsky brings her incomparable storytelling brilliance to her most powerful Warshawski novel yet. \u003ci\u003eTotal Recall\u003c\/i\u003e follows the Chicago P.I. on a road that winds back more than fifty years—and into an intricate maze of wartime lies, heartbreaking secrets, and harrowing retribution.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor V.I., the journey begins with a national conference in downtown Chicago, where angry protesters are calling for the recovery of Holocaust assets. Replayed on the evening news is the scene of a slight man who has stood up at the conference to tell an astonishing story of a childhood shattered by the Holocaust—a story that has devastating consequences for V.I.’s cherished friend and mentor, Lotty Herschel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLotty was a girl of nine when she emigrated from Austria to England, one of a group of children wrenched from their parents and saved from the Nazi terror just before the war broke out. Now stunningly—impossibly—it appears that someone from that long-lost past may have returned.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith the help of a recovered-memory therapist, Paul Radbuka has recently learned his true identity. But is he who he claims to be? Or is he a cunning impostor who has usurped someone else’s history…a history Lotty has tried to forget for over fifty years?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs a frightened V.I. watches her friend unravel, she sets out to help in the only way she can: by investigating Radbuka’s past. Already working on a difficult case for a poor family cheated of their life insurance, she tries to balance Lotty’s needs with her client’s, only to find that both are spiraling into a whirlpool of international crime that stretches from Switzerland and Germany to Chicago’s South Side.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the atrocities of the past reach out to engulf the living, V.I. struggles to decide whose memories of a terrible war she can trust, and moves closer to a chilling realization of the truth—a truth that almost destroys her oldest friend.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith fierce emotional power, Sara Paretsky has woven a gripping and morally complex novel of crime and punishment, memory and illusion. Destined to become a suspense classic, \u003ci\u003eTotal Recall\u003c\/i\u003e proves once again the daring and compelling genius of Sara Paretsky.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Brilliance Audio","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49394230067504,"sku":"BDao58","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio CD [10]","offer_id":49394230165808,"sku":"10ao58","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Audio CD [11]","offer_id":49394230329648,"sku":"11ao58","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/ao58-Square-cover.jpg?v=1773793205","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-ao58","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}