{"product_id":"dont-step-into-my-office-9781648211492","title":"Don't Step Into My Office","description":"\u003cb\u003eA gripping debut novel of literary suspense and a vivid portrait of wealth's hidden violence. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAspiring writer and general layabout Jacob Garlicker doesn't expect--walking along the beach on the night of his twenty-sixth birthday--to witness a murder. After a hapless attempt to help the victim, Jacob decides to forget the incident entirely. And for a while, he does, returning to his bohemian life in NYC as if nothing of consequence had occurred. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSeven years later, Jacob is blissfully married. Now \u003ci\u003emostly\u003c\/i\u003e sober, and \u003ci\u003emostly\u003c\/i\u003e at peace with his failed writing career, he's feeling alright as he heads to his father-in-law's birthday celebration in the Hamptons, even as he knows the well-heeled WASPs that populate his in-laws' social circle will spend the weekend treating him with polite disdain. Everything shifts, however, when Jacob arrives on Long Island and begins to realize that those well-heeled WASPs are not as harmless as they seem. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOver the course of this propulsive, at times blackly comic narrative, Jacob wavers between addled narcissism and earnest commitment as he searches for the brutal, booze-soaked truth. Indebted to the suspenseful, page-turning plotwork of Patricia Highsmith and the operatic madness of Dario Argento, \u003ci\u003eDon't Step into My Office\u003c\/i\u003e is a mesmerizing literary puzzle.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDavid Fishkind was born in Massachusetts. His writing has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe Believer\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNew York Tyrant\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Forever Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eDon't Step into My Office\u003c\/i\u003e is his first novel.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Arcade Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51864346689810,"sku":"9781648211492","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_8f722119-55a1-40a4-b47a-2375b52f2e2b.jpg?v=1767786281","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/dont-step-into-my-office-9781648211492","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}