{"product_id":"the-wake-up-a-novel","title":"The Wake-Up: A Novel","description":"Frank Thorpe is set to board a plane at LAX for a much-needed vacation when he sees an obviously poor young boy knocked out of the way and senseless by an arrogant businessman rushing to a waiting Porsche.\n\nFrank really needs some R \u0026amp; R. He’s just been fired—over a fatal screw up—from the covert operations “shop” he’s worked at for years. But Douglas Meachum—a hard-charging art dealer—needs to be made to feel something more than entitlement: nothing extreme, just a little wake-up call.\n\nGiven Frank’s background and his expertise in good guy\/bad guy tactics, it’s easy for him to set up a scam involving some embarrassing revelations about a faked Mayan sculpture that Meachum sells to one of his clients. But the client isn’t someone who takes kindly to mistakes. She’s a ruthless social-climbing psychopath who, with her surfer-dude husband (the Thomas Alva Edison of designer pharmaceuticals), runs a huge drug operation. And she’s got an invincible thug duo—Vlad and Arturo—to carry out her notions of payback, which make Frank’s wake-up scheme seem positively genteel. What started out as a good (if slightly underhanded) deed quickly veers out of control. How Frank handles the chaos—\nand what he himself hears in the wake-up call—is the fuel that drives this full-throttle, terrifically entertaining novel.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0375422498\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.0375422498.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Robert Ferrigno\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Gently used with minimal wear on the corners and cover. A few pages may contain light highlighting or writing, but the text remains fully legible. Dust jacket may be missing, and supplemental materials like CDs or codes may not be included. May be ex-library with library markings. Ships promptly!  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41383671627834,"sku":"DBV.0375422498.G","price":6.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/0375422498-0.jpg?v=1777397984","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/the-wake-up-a-novel","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}