{"product_id":"easy-9780440224945","title":"Easy","description":"\u003cp\u003eA missing woman. A killer on the loose. And an Atlanta private eye who meditates his way to the truth....  Check out the Majestic Diner At 3 a.m. Look for a man named Flap and a woman named Dalliance...  Flap Tucker isnt like other private eyes. Hes a mystic  a finder of lost things  a veteran of a foreign war who lives on the wrong side of town and lets his mind go freely to nirvana. Now  in the city that Sherman burned but didnt bury  where good ol boys and transvestite hookers pass in the downtown Atlanta night  Flap Tucker is beginning the strangest case of his already strange career.  Flaps best friend  the beautiful nightclub owner Dalliance Oglethorpe  wants Flap to find the vanished wife of a millionaire scion--a half-wit who may have made the woman up in the first place. Real or not  Flap starts looking for one Augusta Donne  and finds  instead  the brutal murders of two topless dancers and a transvestite who was ritually slain. Each step of the way  the case grows more sinister  until Flap suddenly reaches that place only he can go: where all the universe is interconnected  where a Zenlike truth illuminates the path  and where Flap Tucker  the man with all the answers  is standing in a killers way....  Phillip DePoy has published short fiction  poetry  and criticism in Story  The Southern Poetry Review  Xanadu  Yankee  and other magazines. He is currently the creative director of the Maurice Townsend Center for the Performing Arts at the State University of West Georgia  and has had many productions of his plays at regional theaters throughout the south. He is the recipient of numerous grants from the National Endowment for the Arts  the state of Georgia  the Georgia Council for the Arts  the Arts Festival of Atlanta  the South Carolina Council for the Arts  etc. He composed the scores for the regional Angels in America and other productions and has played in a numerous jazz and folk bands. In his work as a folklorist he has collected songs and stories throughout Georgia and has worked with John Burrison  the foremost folklorist in the south and with Joseph Cambell. Nexus Press published his nonfiction essay and photo collection  Messages from Beyond. Easy is his first novel.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67929912442933,"sku":"ByrdShop_0440224942","price":56.87,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780440224945.jpg?v=1794201027","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/easy-9780440224945","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}