{"product_id":"jack-of-spades-a-tale-of-suspense-9780802125057","title":"Jack of Spades: A Tale of Suspense","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom Joyce Carol Oates, an exquisite, psychologically complex thriller about opposing forces within the mind of one ambitious writer and the delicate line between genius and madness.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAndrew J. Rush has achieved the kind of critical and commercial success most authors only dream about: He has a top agent and publisher in New York, and his twenty-eight mystery novels have sold millions of copies. Only Stephen King, one of the few mystery writers whose fame exceeds his own, is capable of inspiring a twinge of envy in Rush. But Rush is hiding a dark secret. Under the pseudonym \"Jack of Spades,\" he pens another string of novels--noir thrillers that are violent, lurid, masochistic. These are novels that the upstanding Rush wouldn't be caught reading, let alone writing. When his daughter comes across a Jack of Spades novel he has carelessly left out, she picks it up and begins to ask questions. Meanwhile, Rush receives a court summons in the mail explaining that a local woman has accused him of plagiarizing her own self-published fiction. Before long, Rush's reputation, career, and family life all come under threat--and in his mind he begins to hear the taunting voice of the Jack of Spades.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJOYCE CAROL OATES\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of such national bestsellers as \u003cem\u003eThe Falls\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBlonde\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eWe Were the Mulvaneys\u003c\/em\u003e. Her other titles for The Mysterious Press include \u003cem\u003eNight-Gaunts and Other Tales of Suspense, \u003c\/em\u003e which features \"The Woman in the Window,\" selected for The Best American Mystery Stories 2017; \u003cem\u003eThe Doll-Master and Other Tales of Terror\u003c\/em\u003e, which won the 2016 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection; \u003cem\u003eThe Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares\u003c\/em\u003e, which won the 2011 Bram Stoker Award for Short Horror Fiction; and \u003cem\u003eJack of Spades\u003c\/em\u003e. She is the recipient of the National Book Award for \u003cem\u003ethem \u003c\/em\u003eand the 2010 President's National Humanities Medal.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Mysterious Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50461109584146,"sku":"9780802125057","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a5db3ae7-3605-4c4a-8b46-42cad155b22b.jpg?v=1730057207","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/jack-of-spades-a-tale-of-suspense-9780802125057","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}