{"product_id":"world-chase-me-down-9780143111474","title":"World, Chase Me Down","description":"\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2018 Nebraska Book Award for Fiction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA rousing, suspenseful debut novel—\u003ci\u003eTrue Grit\u003c\/i\u003e meets \u003ci\u003eCatch Me If You Can\u003c\/i\u003e—based on the forgotten true story of a Robin Hood of the American frontier who pulls off the first successful kidnapping for ransom in U.S. history\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A kidnapper with a social-justice mission” (\u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e), Pat Crowe was once the most wanted man in America. \u003ci\u003eWorld, Chase Me Down \u003c\/i\u003eresurrects him, telling the electrifying story of the first great crime of the last century: how in 1900 the out-of-work former butcher kidnapped the teenage son of Omaha’s wealthiest meatpacking tycoon for a ransom of $25,000 in gold, and then burgled, safe-cracked, and bond-jumped his way across the country and beyond, inciting a manhunt that was dubbed “the thrill of the nation” and a showdown in the court of public opinion between the haves and have-nots—all the while plotting a return to the woman he never stopped loving. As if channeling Mark Twain and Charles Portis, Andrew Hilleman has given us a character who is bawdy and soulful, grizzled, salty, and hard-drinking, and with a voice as unforgettable as that of Lucy Marsden in Alan Gurganus’s \u003ci\u003eOldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All\u003c\/i\u003e—an antihero you can’t help rooting for.","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"STANDARD","offer_id":62251968135555,"sku":"9780143111474","price":22.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0907\/8456\/3587\/files\/9780143111474.jpg?v=1785422104","url":"https:\/\/shopcomics.eu\/products\/world-chase-me-down-9780143111474","provider":"Shop Comics EU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}