{"product_id":"a-christmas-odyssey-a-novel","title":"A Christmas Odyssey: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn her beloved Christmas novels, Anne Perry brings readers both the authentic Victorian charm and the nailbiting suspense that have made her Thomas Pitt and William Monk tales bestsellers for a generation. Though rife with intrigue, these special seasonal stories beam with the blessed light of the holiday.Ten days before Christmas, as an icy wind cuts through London, wealthy James Wentworth feels not joy but grief. His reckless son, Lucien, has been lured into a deadly world of drugs and wild passion. Wentworths only hope, he believes, is his old friend Henry Rathbone, who volunteers to search for the prodigal son. Rathbone knows nothing of the sensationobsessed underworld where Lucien now dwells, but he acquires two unexpected new companions who do: Squeaky Robinson, a reformed brothelkeeper who now works in Hester Monks medical clinic, and Crow, a mysterious slum doctor who turns no one away, however undeserving.Slowly this odd trio gathers cluesabout Luciens mad infatuation with a beautiful woman named Sadie, and about Shadwell, the ruthless man who owns her and, like the Devil, never lets go of one of his own. Rathbone, Squeaky, and Crow even welcome into their little band a most valuable recruit: young Bessie, a teenager whose courage holds fast even in the depths of the slum. And so they set forth on their odyssey into Londons dark streets, on a mission whose outcome they cannot begin to guess.Anne Perrys novels are supreme masterpieces of suspense, and A Christmas Odyssey ranks with the very best. The days leading up to Christmas may prove to be fraught with challenges, but tis the season for comfort and joy and miracles.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ballantine Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47334684459253,"sku":"SONG0345518586","price":8.97,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/5804\/8501\/files\/51WSFrVhUgL.jpg?v=1763971772","url":"https:\/\/ergodebooks.com\/products\/a-christmas-odyssey-a-novel","provider":"Ergodebooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}