{"product_id":"ghosts-of-west-baltimore","title":"Ghosts of West Baltimore","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Save the Westside, save the world\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOur hero, Worm, has just been released from Sinai Hospital in West Baltimore after losing an eye and suffering a soon-to-be fatal blast of radiation. A rabbi believing himself to be the messiah plans to unleash an unspeakable evil on the same Park Heights neighborhood in which our hero has been placed by the state. Meanwhile, a predatory probation officer with a proclivity for research chemicals and ultra-violence, stalks his human caseload, terrorizing his \"boas\" as sickness rots his brain. \u003cp\u003eWith a body full of ionized cells, expensive medicine that Medicaid won't cover, and a time-sensitive placement at a halfway house for critically injured felons, can Worm save the city, again, without violating the terms of his probation?\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Visceral and grounded, but with a kind of ineffable strangeness wound into it. Simmons is carving out a space that feels specifically his own.\" - Brian Evenson \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGhosts of West Baltimore is the sequel to Ghosts of East Baltimore (Broken River Books - 2022)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Broken River Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67790983790914,"sku":"9781940885629","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0992\/2930\/3106\/files\/9781940885629-cover-3f7c881809c4e2acd076.jpg?v=1792275629","url":"https:\/\/longdarkhouse.com\/products\/ghosts-of-west-baltimore","provider":"Long Dark House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}