{"product_id":"9780375422492","title":"The Wake Up - Ferrigno, Robert","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cu\u003eThe Wake Up\u003c\/u\u003e by Ferrigno, Robert\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Hardcover with Dust Jacket\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished by Pantheon Books, 2004\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrank Thorpe is set to board a plane at LAX for a much-needed vacation when he sees an obviously poor young boy knocked out of the way and senseless by an arrogant businessman rushing to a waiting Porsche. \n\nFrank really needs some R \u0026amp; R. He' s just been fired-- over a fatal screw up-- from the covert operations \" shop\" he' s worked at for years. But Douglas Meachum-- a hard-charging art dealer-- needs to be made to feel something more than entitlement: nothing extreme, just a little wake-up call. \n\nGiven Frank' s background and his expertise in good guy\/bad guy tactics, it' s easy for him to set up a scam involving some embarrassing revelations about a faked Mayan sculpture that Meachum sells to one of his clients. But the client isn' t someone who takes kindly to mistakes. She' s a ruthless social-climbing psychopath who, with her surfer-dude husband (the Thomas Alva Edison of designer pharmaceuticals), runs a huge drug operation. And she' s got an invincible thug duo-- Vlad and Arturo-- to carry out her notions of payback, which make Frank' s wake-up scheme seem positively genteel. What started out as a good (if slightly underhanded) deed quickly veers out of control. How Frank handles the chaos-- \n\nand what he himself hears in the wake-up call-- is the fuel that drives this full-throttle, terrifically entertaining novel.\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":"Pantheon Books, 2004","offers":[{"title":"The Wake Up \/ Very Good","offer_id":55119867347236,"sku":"9780375422492VG","price":8.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/9951\/4148\/files\/public_0213eb3a-7d2b-49ac-a777-2e2f57ce5475.jpg?v=1781794180","url":"https:\/\/brookingsbooks.com\/products\/9780375422492","provider":"Brookings Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}