{"product_id":"wake-up-dead-9780312680480","title":"Wake Up Dead","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Roger Smith\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Picador USA\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Picador USA\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Mystery \u0026amp; Detective - Hard-Boiled\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn amphetamine-fueled thriller about a bombshell American widow on the run in Cape Town's violent badlands--from a writer being compared to George Pelecanos and Richard Price\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA split-second decision with no second chance: get it wrong and you wake up dead. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOn a blowtorch-hot night in Cape Town, American ex-model Roxy Palmer and her gunrunner husband, Joe, are carjacked, leaving Joe lying in a pool of blood. As the carjackers make their getaway, Roxy makes a fateful choice that changes her life forever. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDisco and Godwynn, the ghetto gangbangers who sped away in Joe's convertible, will stop at nothing to track her down. Billy Afrika, a mixed-race ex-cop turned mercenary, won't let her out of his sight because Joe owed him a chunk of money. And remorselessly hunting them all is Piper, a love-crazed psychopath determined to renew his vows with his jailhouse \"wife,\" Disco. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs these desperate lives collide and old debts are settled in blood, Roxy is caught in a wave of escalating violence in the beautiful and brutal African seaport. With savage plotting and breakneck suspense that ends in a shattering cataclysm of violence, \u003ci\u003eWake Up Dead\u003c\/i\u003e confirms Roger Smith as one of the world's best new thriller writers.","brand":"Picador USA","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45118317822103,"sku":"9780312680480","price":1603.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780312680480.webp?v=1767274245","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/wake-up-dead-9780312680480","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}