{"product_id":"the-hook-9781780296692","title":"The Hook","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTeacher Raymond Donne finds himself embroiled in another baffling murder case when his friend MoJo is found dead on the school roof, pierced by an arrow.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e On the rooftop of Raymond Donne's school, Maurice 'MoJo' Joseph's lifeless body is found with an arrow sticking out of its back. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Mojo had recently gone through drug rehab, but was turning his life around. He had a baby on the way while also working at the school and for a security company. But was he so clean? Heroin was found in his system and in his possession, and he'd been secretly carrying out security work for a notorious White Nationalist. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Donne's ex-cop instincts tell him something doesn't add up. When Allison Rogers, an online journalist and Donne's long-time girlfriend, runs insider stories from a runaway of the White Nationalists and a mysterious man turns up saying MoJo was working for him, Donne takes it upon himself, with the help of his techno-friend Edgar, to investigate. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e What was MoJo up to, and was he back to his old ways?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eO'Mara, Tim:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eTIM O'MARA \u003c\/b\u003ewas nominated for a Barry award for his debut novel \u003ci\u003eSacrifice Fly\u003c\/i\u003e, about Raymond Donne, an ex-cop who now teaches in the same Williamsburg, Brooklyn, neighborhood he once policed. His novellas \u003ci\u003eSmoked\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eJammed \u003c\/i\u003eappear in 2016 and 2018 crime trilogies \u003ci\u003eTriple Shot\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThree Strikes\u003c\/i\u003e. O'Mara taught special education for thirty years in the public schools of New York City. He now teaches grown-up writers, incarcerated youth and adults, and still lives in Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan with his wife and daughter. O'Mara recently finished curating the short-story crime anthology, \u003ci\u003eDown to the River\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Severn House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51199715672338,"sku":"9781780296692","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_40fafcc5-5873-4399-9fd9-16f103afdcc2.jpg?v=1744882908","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-hook-9781780296692","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}