{"product_id":"departure-37-hardcover","title":"Departure 37 - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eScott Carson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHorror meets coming-of-age in this thrilling novel in which forgotten Cold War mysteries make a terrifying reappearance, from a writer Stephen King has called \"a master.\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOn a clear October day, the American skies empty after hundreds of pilots refuse to fly, triggering a complete ground stop as authorities seek to explain an act of baffling coordination that the pilots insist was anything but planned. The pilots received disturbing, middle-of-the-night calls from their mothers, and each mother had a simple and urgent request: \u003ci\u003edo not fly today\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThere are a few concerning elements to the calls. None of the mothers remember making them--and some of the mothers are dead. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhile the nation's military chiefs and artificial intelligence experts mobilize in search of answers, a sixteen-year-old girl named Charlie on the coast of Maine watches a strange, silvery balloon drift across the water and toward her home--a place she loathes. Her father's dream of opening a craft brewery on an old airfield has been a disaster, and all she wants is an escape back to Brooklyn. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eShe's about to get much more than that. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHer new home is ground zero for a story that begins at a remote naval base in Indiana during the winter of 1962, when a physicist named Martin Hazelton discovered something extraordinary--and deadly. All Hazelton wanted was time to seek an explanation, but pressure from both American and Russian actors forced him into a perilous race. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMoving between the two characters and timelines, Scott Carson deftly weaves Cold War espionage with contemporary terror in a story that explains why #1 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller Joe Hill has declared himself \"a fan for life.\"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eScott Carson is the pseudonym of Michael Koryta, a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author whose work has been translated into more than twenty languages, adapted into major motion pictures, and won the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e Book Prize. A former private investigator and reporter, his writing has been praised by Stephen King, Michael Connelly, and Dean Koontz, among many others. Raised in Bloomington, Indiana, he now lives in Indiana and Maine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 400\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.33 x 9.17 x 6.35 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 05, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43153258315839,"sku":"9781982191481","price":34.79,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/tnj2M9aaz79781982191481.webp?v=1776945638","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/departure-37-hardcover","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}