{"product_id":"fester-descent-9781733269988","title":"Fester Descent","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Crawford Smith\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Sweet Weasel Words\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Sweet Weasel Words\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Absurdist\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwenty years after \u003cem\u003eFester\u003c\/em\u003e, the town is still running on inertia and bad decisions. Everyone assumes things will work themselves out. They never do.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBolly Bollinger is trying to keep his father's auto shop afloat while the town's last old-money family keeps raising the rent. His stress relief is a local tradition known as a \"zoo run.\" He roars past the Schmidt mansion at top speed, flips off history, and pretends that counts as control. One night, the response is a gunshot. Bolly survives, but the consequences don't stop there.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Candy Troutman-an informant at Mike's Place, Fester's notorious brothel-is found murdered in her bathtub, Chief Constable Martin Prieboy moves to contain the damage. He wants answers quickly, order restored, and the town reassured. Instead, he gets a case that resists simplicity and rewards the wrong assumptions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the investigation tightens, Fester looks elsewhere. A failing shopping mall stumbles into viral fame after a Fourth of July Fun Fair triggers supposed hauntings and an influx of ghost hunters. The events may even involve a long-dead Native American. No one agrees. Everyone has an opinion.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMeanwhile, a volatile heir to a dying dynasty retreats into weapons, paranoia, and his three pet monkeys. A disgraced former chief isolates himself with a Vietnam-era tank. The town keeps moving, convinced that spectacle counts as progress.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCaught between economic pressure, civic certainty, and a system that refuses to slow down, Bolly and Martin find themselves on opposite sides of momentum that no longer cares who gets crushed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFester Descent is a darkly comic crime novel about small-town justice, institutional stubbornness, and the comfort of bad answers. Savage, satirical, and escalating with gleeful inevitability, it proves that in Fester, the truth isn't hidden-it's just less entertaining than the alternative.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sweet Weasel Words","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47568776921239,"sku":"9781733269988","price":1288.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781733269988.webp?v=1774870751","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/fester-descent-9781733269988","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}