{"product_id":"the-quiet-boy-paperback","title":"The Quiet Boy - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBen H. Winters\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the \"inventive...entertaining and thought-provoking\" (Charles Yu) New York Times-bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eUnderground Airlines\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eGolden State\u003c\/i\u003e, this sweeping legal thriller follows a sixteen-year-old who suffers from a neurological condition that has frozen him in time--and the team of lawyers, doctors, and detectives who are \u003ci\u003edesperate\u003c\/i\u003e to wake him up. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 2008, a cheerful ambulance-chasing lawyer named Jay Shenk persuades the grieving Keener family to sue a private LA hospital. Their son Wesley has been transformed by a routine surgery into a kind of golem, absent all normal functioning or personality, walking in endless empty circles around his hospital room. In 2019, Shenk--still in practice but a shell of his former self--is hired to defend Wesley Keener's father when he is charged with murder . . . the murder, as it turns out, of the expert witness from the 2008 hospital case. Shenk's adopted son, a fragile teenager in 2008, is a wayward adult, though he may find his purpose when he investigates what really happened to the murdered witness. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTwo thrilling trials braid together, medical malpractice and murder, jostling us back and forth in time. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Quiet Boy\u003c\/i\u003e is a book full of mysteries, not only about the death of a brilliant scientist, not only about the outcome of the medical malpractice suit, but about the relationship between children and their parents, between the past and the present, between truth and lies. At the center of it all is Wesley Keener, endlessly walking, staring empty-eyed, in whose quiet, hollow body may lie the fate of humankind.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBen H. Winters\u003c\/b\u003e is the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author of \u003ci\u003eUnderground Airlines \u003c\/i\u003eand the Last Policeman trilogy. The second novel in the trilogy, \u003ci\u003eCountdown City\u003c\/i\u003e, was an NPR Best Book of 2013 and the winner of the Philip K. Dick award. \u003ci\u003eThe Last Policeman\u003c\/i\u003e was the recipient of the 2012 Edgar Award, and was also named one of the Best Books of 2012 by Amazon.com and \u003ci\u003eSlate\u003c\/i\u003e. Ben lives with his family in Los Angeles, CA.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 448\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.8 x 7.9 x 5.6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 22, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42157404094599,"sku":"9780316428552","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/3bcdc4bfde49a60431e6d59033fd6ead.webp?v=1733250547","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/the-quiet-boy-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}