{"product_id":"the-savage-noble-death-of-babs-dionne","title":"The Savage, Noble Death of Babs Dionne","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA \u003cem\u003eTimes\u003c\/em\u003e Best Thrillers of the Year pick. A mythic, propulsive crime saga about the tangled fates of a matriarchal crime family in Maine.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBabs Dionne — proud Franco-American, doting grandmother, vicious crime matriarch — rules her small town of Waterville, Maine with an iron fist. She controls the flow of drugs into Little Canada with the help of her loyal lieutenants (girlfriends since they were teenagers) and her eldest daughter Lori, a Marine veteran struggling with addiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhen a drug kingpin's numbers go down in the upper northeast, he sends a malevolent force known only as \u003cem\u003eThe Man\u003c\/em\u003e to investigate. At the same time, Babs's youngest daughter has gone missing. In twenty-four hours she will be found dead — and the whole town will seek shelter from Babs's wrath.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDarkly funny, shocking, and unblinking — a crime saga like no other, with a ferocious matriarch at its bruised, beating heart.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch4\u003ePraise\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Bloody yet surprisingly warm-hearted… great stuff.\"\u003c\/em\u003e — \u003cem\u003eThe Times\u003c\/em\u003e, Best Thrillers of the Year\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"A tour de force.\"\u003c\/em\u003e — \u003cem\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Literary thrillers just don't come any better.\"\u003c\/em\u003e — Richard Russo, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of \u003cem\u003eEmpire Falls\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch4\u003eAbout the author\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRon Currie is the author of the novels \u003cem\u003eGod Is Dead\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eEverything Matters!\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe One-Eyed Man\u003c\/em\u003e. His work has won the New York Public Library's Young Lions Fiction Award and the Metcalf Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and has been shortlisted for the New York Public Library Young Lions Award. He lives in Maine — the territory at the heart of this novel.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51685374132440,"sku":"9781805463917","price":550.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0818\/1471\/6632\/files\/the-savage-noble-death-of-babs-dionne.jpg?v=1778771251","url":"https:\/\/www.readersparadise.co\/products\/the-savage-noble-death-of-babs-dionne","provider":"readersparadiseindore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}