{"product_id":"9781843449867","title":"Desperation Road : Now a Major film release 2023","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Michael Farris Smith is one of the best writers of his generation, and this very well may be his best work\" — Tom Franklin\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn the vein of Daniel Woodrell's Winter's Bone and the works of Ron Rash, \u003cem\u003eDesperation Road\u003c\/em\u003e is set in a rough Mississippi town where drugs, whiskey, guns, and the desire for revenge violently collide.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor eleven years, the clock had been ticking for Russell Gaines as he sat in Parchman Penitentiary in the Mississippi Delta.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis time now up, and believing his debt paid, he returns home only to discover that revenge lives and breathes all around.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn the day of his release, a woman named Maben and her young daughter trudge along the side of the interstate under the punishing summer sun.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDesperate and exhausted, the pair spend their last dollar on a motel room for the night, a night that ends with Maben running through the darkness holding a pistol, and a dead deputy sprawled across the road in the glow of his own headlights.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith dawn, destinies collide, and Gaines is forced to decide whose life he will save — his own, or those of the woman and child?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eDesperation Road\u003c\/em\u003e is a gripping, guttural thriller of redemption and human frailty. It is due to be turned into a film of the same title starring Mel Gibson.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MICHAEL FARRIS SMITH","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47976471888021,"sku":"9781843449867","price":32.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/harpercollins.com.au\/products\/9781843449867","provider":"HarperCollins AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}