{"product_id":"9781842433645","title":"Big Machine","description":"\u003cp\u003eRicky Rice is a middle-aged hustler with a lingering junk habit, a bum knee, and a haunted mind. The sole survivor of a suicide cult, he spends his days scraping by as a porter at a bus depot in Utica, New York. Until one day a letter arrives, reminding him of a vow he once made and summoning him to Vermont's remote Northeast Kingdom to fulfill it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere, Ricky is inducted into a band of paranormal investigators comprised of former addicts and petty criminals, all of whom have at some point in their wasted lives heard the Voice: a murmur on the wind, a disembodied shout, a whisper in an empty room. All these may or may not have been messages from God. Their mission is to find the Voice - and figure out what it wants.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBig Machine\u003c\/em\u003e takes us from Ricky's childhood in a matrilineal cult housed in a New York City tenement to his near-death experience in the basement of an Iowa house owned by a man named Murder. And to his final confrontation with an army of true believers - and with his own past.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInfused with the wonder of a disquieting dream and laced with Victor LaValle's fiendish comic sensibility, Big Machine is a mind-rattling mystery about doubt, faith, and the monsters we carry within us.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Victor LaValle","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47976482603157,"sku":"9781842433645","price":22.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/harpercollins.com.au\/products\/9781842433645","provider":"HarperCollins AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}