{"product_id":"america-fantastica-318502","title":"America Fantastica","description":"\u003cdiv id=\"tab-overview\" class=\"tab-pane tab-white active\" role=\"tabpanel\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv itemprop=\"description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"\u003eAt 11:34 a.m. one Saturday in August 2019, Boyd Halverson strode into Community National Bank in Northern California.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“How much is on hand, would you say?” he asked the teller. “I’ll want it all.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“You’re robbing me?”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe revealed a Temptation .38 Special.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe teller, a diminutive redhead named Angie Bing, collected eighty-one thousand dollars.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBoyd stuffed the cash into a paper grocery bag.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“I’m sorry about this,” he said, “but I’ll have to ask you to take a ride with me.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSo begins the adventure of Boyd Halverson—star journalist turned notorious online disinformation troll turned JCPenney manager—and his irrepressible hostage, Angie Bing. Haunted by his past and weary of his present, Boyd has one goal before the authorities catch up with him: settle a score with the man who destroyed his life. By Monday the pair reach Mexico; by winter, they are in a lakefront mansion in Minnesota. On their trail are hitmen, jealous lovers, ex-cons, an heiress, a billionaire shipping tycoon, a three-tour veteran of Iraq, and the ghosts of Boyd’s past. Everyone, it seems, except the police.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the tradition of Jonathan Swift and Mark Twain,\u003cem\u003e America Fantastica\u003c\/em\u003e delivers a biting, witty, and entertaining story about the causes and costs of outlandish fantasy, while also marking the triumphant return of an essential voice in American letters. And at the heart of the novel, amid a teeming cast of characters, readers will delight in the tug-of-war between two memorable and iconic human beings—the exuberant savior-of-souls Angie Bing and the penitent but compulsive liar Boyd Halverson. Just as Tim O’Brien’s modern classic, \u003cem\u003eThe Things They Carried\u003c\/em\u003e, so brilliantly reflected the unromantic truth of war, America Fantastica puts a mirror to a nation and a time that has become dangerously unmoored from truth and greedy for delusion.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Royal Gift Land","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42925338853465,"sku":"9780063318502","price":14.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0611\/0206\/3705\/files\/9780063318502.jpg?v=1766070759","url":"https:\/\/royalgiftland.com\/products\/america-fantastica-318502","provider":"Royal Gift Land","version":"1.0","type":"link"}