{"title": "Name withheld", "covers": [4340849, 235038, 6980387], "subject_places": ["Seattle (Wash.)", "Seattle", "Washington (State)"], "first_publish_date": "1996", "key": "/works/OL13652W", "authors": [{"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL2629802A"}}], "dewey_number": ["813/.54"], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "subjects": ["J. P. Beaumont (Fictitious character)", "Police", "Fiction", "Large type books", "Beaumont, j. p. (fictitious character), fiction", "Washington (state), fiction", "Seattle (wash.), fiction", "Fiction, mystery & detective, police procedural", "Mystery", "Fiction, mystery & detective, general"], "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "An explosive novel of betrayal and blood vengeance fromthe New York Times bestselling author of Long Time Gone.There are those who don't deserve to live -- and the corpse floating in Elliot Bay may have been one of those people. Not surprisingly, many individuals -- too many, in fact -- are eager to take responsibility for the brutal slaying of the hated biotech executive whose alleged crimes ranged from the illegal trading of industrial secrets to rape. For Seattle Detective J.P. Beaumont -- who's drowning in his own life-shattering problems -- a case of seemingly justifiable homicide has sinister undertones, drawing the haunted policeman into a corporate nightmare of double deals, savage jealousies, and real blood spilled far too easily, as it leads him closer to a killer he's not sure he wants to find."}, "first_sentence": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "I was showered, dressed, and had rousted the girls out of bed for breakfast when the telephone rang at eight-ten the next morning."}, "excerpts": [{"excerpt": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "I was showered, dressed, and had rousted the girls out of bed for breakfast when the telephone rang at eight-ten the next morning."}, "page": "First sentence"}], "latest_revision": 12, "revision": 12, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-10-08T16:50:50.274651"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2022-11-19T22:45:17.816133"}}