{"product_id":"book-ectk","title":"Never Shoot a Stampede Queen","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe cops wanted to shoot me, my bosses thought I was a Bolshevik, and a local lawyer warned me that some people I was writing about might try to test the strength of my skull with a steel pipe. What more could any young reporter hope for from his first real job?\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe night Mark Leiren-Young drove into Williams Lake, British Columbia, in 1985 to work as a reporter for the venerable \u003cem\u003eWilliams Lake Tribune\u003c\/em\u003e, he arrived on the scene of an armed robbery. And that was before things got weird. For a 22-year-old from Vancouver, a stint in the legendary Cariboo town was a trip to another world and another era. From the explosive opening, where Mark finds himself in a courtroom just a few feet away from a defendant with a bomb strapped to his chest, to the case of a plane that crashed without its pilot on board, \u003cem\u003eNever Shoot a Stampede Queen\u003c\/em\u003e is an unforgettable comic memoir of a city boy learning about-and learning to love-life in a cowboy town.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"An absolute charmer in the Stuart McLean\/Will Ferguson vein.\" -John Threlfall, \u003cem\u003eMonday Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Williams Lake comes across as the Wild West mixed with Capone-era Chicago with a soupcon of Jim Crow Deep South segregation and an unsavory dash of perversion. And that's just in the first chapter. -Tom Hawthorn, \u003cem\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Loved it! I salute you, sir. Thanks for a great read.\" -Zachary Petit, Managing Editor, \u003cem\u003eWriter's Digest\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"INAudio","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49441817985328,"sku":"BDectk","price":9.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/ectk-Square-cover.jpg?v=1773283070","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-ectk","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}