{"product_id":"midwestern-chrome-paperback-1","title":"Midwestern Chrome - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMichael Bettendorf\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA burned-out detective trapped in a cold case finds a curious lead-the severed head of an android who cries for help in the voice of his dead wife. It has her memories. It has her personality. But is it... Elsie? Welcome to the frayed-wire-and-spare-parts autopsy of a near-future Nebraska, lit bright by neon promises and smoldering with broken dreams. Society is high on body augmentations and self-interest and low on moral reckonings. Harlan's cold case takes center stage in the novella Our Bird Trills Mechanical, but desperate people willing to do whatever it takes fill the pages: people like Lucian Lucky, an augment-addicted prizefighter who must decide if the cost of winning is worth the size of the purse; or Javier, a love-struck henchman who's fallen for the niece of his violent boss. Freaks, fighters, fixers and f\u0026amp;%k-ups: fortune favors the corrupt in MIDWESTERN CHROME.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eMichael Bettendorf (he\/him) is a writer from the U.S. Midwest. His short fiction has appeared in Drabblecast, Sley House Press, and elsewhere. He works in a high school library in Lincoln, Nebraska- a place he tries to convince the world is too strange to be a flyover state.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 230\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.52 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 11, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53878092431667,"sku":"9781959790679","price":30.02,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/2bUDgEcvKC9781959790679_97de6ae8-a5cd-4533-9379-8c55761deb1e.webp?v=1787191490","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/midwestern-chrome-paperback-1","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}