{"product_id":"a-fine-dark-line-9780892967292","title":"A Fine Dark Line","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe time is the summer of 1958. The place is Dewmont  Texas  a town that the great American postwar boom has somehow passed by. A sad  hollow beat trails the kids who tune into rockabilly on the radio and waste their weekends at the Dairy Queen. And an undetected menace simmers under the heat that clings to the skin like thin molasses. For blissfully ignorant thirteen-year-old Stanley Mitchell  the end of innocence comes with his discovery of an old trove of passionate yet troubled love letters that lead him to a long-ago house fire and the tragic deaths of two very different young women. Obsessed with investigating their fates  Stanley finds a guide and mentor in black  elderly Buster Lighthouse Smith  a retired Indian Reservation policeman who now runs the projector at the drive-in theater owned by Stanleys parents. The laconic Buster tutors Stanley on the finer points of Sherlock Holmes  the blues  and lifes lost dreams. But not every buried thing stays dead. And in one terrifying night of rushing creek water and thundering rain  an arcane  murderous force will suddenly rise from the past to threaten the boy - and test the limits of Busters strength and wisdom. In the end the old man teaches Stanley a lesson that will haunt him always  about the forever short distance between living flesh and the dust from which it came.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45647859712053,"sku":"ByrdShop_0892967293","price":21.21,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780892967292.jpg?v=1781698420","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/a-fine-dark-line-9780892967292","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}