{"product_id":"short-count-book-one","title":"Short Count (Book One)","description":"\u003cp\u003eTwelve years after a crop blight broke the American heartland, four armed enclaves keep the peace by counting each other's guns. Emory Aske does the counting — until a courier turns up dead holding a seal that shouldn't exist.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen a courier turns up dead in a sinkhole clutching a Tally seal that shouldn't exist, aging weapons inspector Emory Aske has ten days to trace a flood of black-market primers before a hungry garrison seizes the valley's grain. The trail runs through a primer works whose books are too clean, a smuggler's island, and weapons he signed off as destroyed ten years ago. He can't outfight the men behind it. He will have to out-count them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBook One of The Tally. By M. C. Varlow.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HQ Supply Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67586173829283,"sku":null,"price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0786\/8340\/6499\/files\/sc-v2-front.png?v=1790794484","url":"https:\/\/hqsupplyco.com\/products\/short-count-book-one","provider":"HQ Supply Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}