{"product_id":"bone-deep-9798295678271","title":"Bone Deep","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): C. Lowry\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Grand Ozarks Media\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Grand Ozarks Media\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Crime\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBONE DEEP\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cem\u003eA Whacky, Weird Florida Mystery\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Florida, even the dead don't stay buried.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDanny \"Gumbo\" Malone thought he was signing up for a simple recovery job-three stolen fossils, a quiet collector in Gainesville, and a tidy $500-a-day payday. Easy math.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUntil he walks into a suburban house that's secretly a private Ice Age museum... and discovers the missing pieces aren't souvenirs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey're black-market megafauna.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA near-complete mastodon skull.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e A museum-quality dire wolf cranium.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Rare giant ground sloth vertebrae pulled from Florida riverbeds-illegal to own, priceless to collectors, and worth killing over in the right market.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe client can't call the police.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The broker might be compromised.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e And the deeper Gumbo digs into Florida's underground fossil trade, the more he realizes this isn't a random theft-it's a territorial war between rival supply chains moving millions in prehistoric contraband.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the oak-canopied streets of Gainesville to the backroads of Ocala, from a Tampa parking garage briefing to a gravel-shoulder standoff with a lifted F-250 and a man who runs North Florida like it's his personal preserve, Gumbo finds himself caught between two powerful operators who both think the other blinked first.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe's just the guy hired to return stolen property.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey see him as a message.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePacked with: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFlorida noir atmosphere\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOffbeat humor and dry, deadpan wit\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBlack-market fossil trafficking\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRiver divers, brokers, and underground collectors\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOrganized crime with a Southern drawl\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHigh-stakes territorial disputes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA reluctant PI who'd rather be fixing his boat\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBONE DEEP\u003c\/strong\u003e is a sharp, stylish Florida mystery about greed, territory, and the strange economics of ancient bones in a modern world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBecause in Florida, the past isn't history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt's inventory.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Grand Ozarks Media","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47568394748055,"sku":"9798295678271","price":688.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798295678271.webp?v=1774868005","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/bone-deep-9798295678271","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}