{"product_id":"9780345461339","title":"The Candle of Distant Earth","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom science fiction legend and \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author Alan Dean Foster comes the climactic final novel  in The Taken trilogy, his electrifying space epic about a man and his dog for whom  the expression “out of this world” takes on a whole new meaning.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Location is everything.  In Chicago, Marcus Walker was a hotshot commodities broker. In the cargo hold of  the alien Vilenjji spaceship, he and a laconic dog named George, who has been speech-enhanced  to increase his value, are just two more primitive creatures being shipped to the  civilized part of the universe, where the market for cuddly extraterrestrial “pets”  is busting wide open.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Though Walker and George manage to escape, man and dog are  far from overjoyed, being even farther from Earth—billions of miles, in fact—and  without a clue as to whether the direction home is up, down, or sideways. Possessing  universe-level social skills, Walker becomes the leader of his own armada. Yet even  a fleet commander is hard pressed to find a piece of space that no one’s ever heard  of, much less cares to find.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e To  make matters worse, it seems the Vilenjji are proving  to be notoriously sore losers. Even if Walker does pull off the impossible and pinpoint  his needle of a solar system in the universe haystack, there’s a good chance that  the unrelenting Vilenjji will get to him before he ever gets to Wrigley Field.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Yep,  it’s a wide-open universe out there, bursting with possibilities—and Walker’s going  to get hit with all of them.","brand":"Alan Dean Foster","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Mass market (rack) paperback \/ USED","offer_id":45226419290333,"sku":"9780345461339","price":4.5,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/6860\/1821\/files\/BNCImageAPI_f928a477-07dd-4c57-a493-2ffadd386845.jpg?v=1732173073","url":"https:\/\/thenextchaptergp.com\/products\/9780345461339","provider":"The Next Chapter  -  Books, Puzzles and Gifts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}