{"product_id":"9781982191481","title":"Departure 37","description":"\u003cb\u003ePast mysteries reappear in this terrifying tale in which forgotten Cold War secrets make a disturbing reappearance, from a writer Stephen King has called \"a master.\"\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOn a clear October day, the American skies empty after hundreds of pilots refuse to fly, triggering a complete ground stop as authorities seek to explain an act of baffling coordination that the pilots insist was anything but planned. The pilots received disturbing, middle-of-the-night calls from their mothers, and each mother had a simple and urgent request: \u003ci\u003edo not fly today\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThere are a few concerning elements to the calls. None of the mothers remember making them--and some of the mothers are dead. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhile the nation's military chiefs and artificial intelligence experts mobilize in search of answers, a sixteen-year-old girl named Charlie on the coast of Maine watches a strange, silvery balloon drift across the water and toward her home--a place she loathes. Her father's dream of opening a craft brewery on an old airfield has been a disaster, and all she wants is an escape back to Brooklyn. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eShe's about to get much more than that. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHer new home is ground zero for a story that begins at a remote naval base in Indiana during the winter of 1962, when a physicist named Martin Hazelton discovered something extraordinary--and deadly. All Hazelton wanted was time to seek an explanation, but pressure from both American and Russian actors forced him into a perilous race. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMoving between the two characters and timelines, Scott Carson deftly weaves Cold War espionage with contemporary terror in a story that explains why #1 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller Joe Hill has declared himself \"a fan for life.\"","brand":"Atria Books (Author: Carson, Scott)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49975709892965,"sku":"9781982191481","price":28.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0852\/0538\/5573\/files\/imageloader_79bb7c6f-3476-44bb-9df2-ee407f4af2f1.jpg?v=1770206984","url":"https:\/\/paralleluniversebooks.com\/products\/9781982191481","provider":"Parallel Universe Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}