{"product_id":"citizen-vince","title":"Citizen Vince","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the Edgar Award for Best Novel of the Year\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"You just have to read it . . . . Utterly inventive. . . excruciatingly breathless.\" \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e--\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMaureen Corrigan, \u003cem\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom the #1 \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestselling author of \u003cem\u003eBeautiful Ruins: \u003c\/em\u003ea riveting\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003estory of witness protection, petty thievery, local politics, and murder--set against the turbulent backdrop of the 1980 presidential election\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt's the fall of 1980, the last week before the presidential election that pits the downtrodden Jimmy Carter against the suspiciously sunny Ronald Reagan. In a seedy suburban house in Spokane, a small-time crook formerly from New York, Vince Camden, pockets his weekly allotment of stolen credit cards and heads off to his witness-protection job at a donut shop. At the shop he takes a shine to a regular named Kelly, who works for a local politician. Somehow he finds himself and the politician in a parking lot at three in the morning, giving the slip to a couple of menacing thugs. And then he crosses the path of a young detective--and discovers his credit-scam partner, lying dead in his passport-photo office with a Cheerio-size bullet-hole in his head. No one writing crime novels today tells a story or sketches a character with more freshness or élan than Jess Walter. \u003cem\u003eCitizen Vince\u003c\/em\u003e is his funniest and grittiest book yet.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jess Walter","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47273478619372,"sku":"9780061577659","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0684\/1791\/3068\/files\/9780061577659.jpg?v=1770131737","url":"https:\/\/allstora.com\/products\/citizen-vince","provider":"Allstora","version":"1.0","type":"link"}