{"product_id":"pale-horse-coming-9780671035464","title":"Pale Horse Coming","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePale Horse Coming\u003c\/i\u003e, featuring Stephen Hunter's beloved sniper heroes Earl and Bob Lee Swagger, the first Swagger thriller from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe time is 1951. A smooth-talking Chicago lawyer comes to chat with Sam Vincent, the former prosecutor of Polk County, Arkansas, about a dangerous subject--a big prison for violent black convicts near Thebes, Mississippi, up the Yaxahatchee River from Pasagoula. Thebes seems to have dropped out of the Union--letters and phone calls go unanswered, and the lawyer has questions that need answers. Would Sam--an ex-lawman, a white man and a Southerner--agree to go up there and find out what he can? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe ex-prosecutor takes on the job, but first he goes to see his old friend Earl Swagger, and tells him that if he isn't back in a week, Earl is to come looking for him. When Sam vanishes into the mists and swamps around Thebes, Mississippi, Earl packs his gun, explains to a distraught Junie that duty is duty and a promise is a promise, and sets off for Thebes, Mississippi to track his friend down. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSoon enough, Earl--who approaches Thebes and its sinister prison with the stealth of a good Marine on a recon mission--realizes that something very strange indeed is going on there, that the prison is more than just a place that chills the blood of even the most hardened convict, that in fact the whole town of Thebes is hiding a secret--and it's a place where people disappear all too easily, particularly inquisitive strangers, for whom burial in the swamps follows torture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHunter, Stephen:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Stephen Hunter has written over twenty novels. The retired chief film critic for \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, where he won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Criticism, he has also published two collections of film criticism and a nonfiction work, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Gunfight\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in Baltimore, Maryland.","brand":"Pocket Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50718739431698,"sku":"9780671035464","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_072995a8-4beb-4f5e-8571-5881c5b582a1.jpg?v=1734648799","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/pale-horse-coming-9780671035464","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}