{"product_id":"9780358331537","title":"The Ninth Metal - Percy, Benjamin","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cu\u003eThe Ninth Metal\u003c\/u\u003e by Percy, Benjamin\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Hardcover with Dust Jacket\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished by Mariner Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2021\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIT BEGAN WITH A COMET…\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt first, people gazed in wonder at the radiant tear in the sky. A year later, the celestial marvel became a planetary crisis when Earth spun through the comet’s debris field and the sky rained fire.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe town of Northfall, Minnesota will never be the same. Meteors cratered hardwood forests and annihilated homes, and among the wreckage a new metal was discovered. This “omnimetal” has properties that make it world-changing as an energy source…and a weapon.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJohn Frontier—the troubled scion of an iron-ore dynasty in Northfall—returns for his sister’s wedding to find his family embroiled in a cutthroat war to control mineral rights and mining operations. His father rightly suspects foreign leaders and competing corporations of sabotage, but the greatest threat to his legacy might be the US government. Physicist Victoria Lennon was recruited by the Department of Defense to research omnimetal, but she finds herself trapped in a laboratory of nightmares. And across town, a rookie cop is investigating a murder that puts her own life in the crosshairs. She will have to compromise her moral code to bring justice to this now lawless community.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this gut-punch of a novel, the first in his Comet Cycle, Ben Percy lays bare how a modern-day goldrush has turned the middle of nowhere into the center of everything, and how one family—the Frontiers—hopes to control it all.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003csmall\u003eProduct image is for illustration purposes only and may not be an exact representation of the product offered for sale.\u003c\/small\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mariner Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2021","offers":[{"title":"The Ninth Metal \/ Very Good","offer_id":51310213628196,"sku":"9780358331537VG","price":8.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/9951\/4148\/files\/public_6a3a75cd-57ff-4a71-b6bb-6a7a13e303f8.jpg?v=1781791756","url":"https:\/\/brookingsbooks.com\/products\/9780358331537","provider":"Brookings Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}