{"product_id":"short-count-book-one-of-the-tally","title":"Short Count (Book One of The Tally)","description":"\u003cp\u003eEmory Aske counts things for a living.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn the twelve years since the Burn ended the war, the Tally — the fragile peace built on counted weapons and audited ledgers — has held. The peace is only as good as the count. And Aske has never seen a ledger this clean.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSent to audit the Hauser Cartridge Works, Aske finds three months of production books without a single mistake: no blots, no cross-outs, no tired clerk's hand. Real numbers have noise in them. These don't. Someone is cooking the books — and in a world where every primer is a promise, a cooked book means uncounted weapons.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhat begins as an auditor's itch becomes a hunt across a scarred Mississippi valley: burned terminals, missing lot numbers, and a conspiracy reaching the Tally House itself. Because somewhere out there are weapons nobody has counted since the Burn — and Aske is the only man in the valley who knows how to find them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eShort Count is Book One of The Tally — a near-future thriller about the men who count the guns, the peace that depends on them, and what happens when the numbers stop adding up.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBy M. C. Varlow.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"M. C. Varlow","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67590281134243,"sku":"SC-MCVARLOW-SCBOOK1","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0786\/8340\/6499\/files\/short-count-kindle-cover.jpg?v=1790832061","url":"https:\/\/hqsupplyco.com\/products\/short-count-book-one-of-the-tally","provider":"HQ Supply Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}