{"product_id":"dont-step-into-my-office","title":"Don't Step into My Office","description":"\u003cb\u003eA gripping debut novel of literary suspense and a vivid portrait of wealth's hidden violence. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAspiring writer and general layabout Jacob Garlicker doesn't expect—walking along the beach on the night of his twenty-sixth birthday—to witness a murder. After a hapless attempt to help the victim, Jacob decides to forget the incident entirely. And for a while, he does, returning to his bohemian life in NYC as if nothing of consequence had occurred.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSeven years later, Jacob is blissfully married. Now \u003ci\u003emostly\u003c\/i\u003e sober, and \u003ci\u003emostly\u003c\/i\u003e at peace with his failed writing career, he's feeling alright as he heads to his father-in-law's birthday celebration in the Hamptons, even as he knows the well-heeled WASPs that populate his in-laws' social circle will spend the weekend treating him with polite disdain. Everything shifts, however, when Jacob arrives on Long Island and begins to realize that those well-heeled WASPs are not as harmless as they seem. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOver the course of this propulsive, at times blackly comic narrative, Jacob wavers between addled narcissism and earnest commitment as he searches for the brutal, booze-soaked truth. Indebted to the suspenseful, page-turning plotwork of Patricia Highsmith and the operatic madness of Dario Argento, \u003ci\u003eDon't Step into My Office\u003c\/i\u003e is a mesmerizing literary puzzle.","brand":"Skyhorse Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55702857613656,"sku":"9781648211492","price":29.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781648211492_b5dd6050-554a-4205-a22c-e07de1cb0d61.jpg?v=1779516067","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/dont-step-into-my-office","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}