{"product_id":"the-upper-tentacle","title":"The Upper Tentacle","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe admin for a corporate retreat and a body-splitting alien team up to solve the murder of the company's president at a closed ski resort before their alien overlords inflict dire consequences for humanity's collective insubordination.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNia would probably rather be anywhere than a closed ski resort, supporting Hugh Callahan, the president of Crestone Learning, at a company retreat. As the only admin, she is responsible for pretty much everything, from making sure that meals are on time, to preparing speeches--and \u003ci\u003ealso apparently\u003c\/i\u003e solving the murder of the aforementioned and newly deceased Hugh Callahan, who was found murdered in a resort hot tub. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMeanwhile, Khearozoth, a 4th level subordinate class of shelgol'gah--the dimension-traversing, body-splitting, entity-eating alien species that has been taking over Earth, one megacorporation at a time-- had one job at the retreat: to make sure that Hugh appropriately honored their master, the prodigiously hungry Greatest Supreme. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen the Greatest Supreme learns about Hugh's death, they task Khearozoth and Nia with finding the killer. Now this unlikely pairing must work together to solve the murder--because there is a killer on the loose, and the Greatest Supreme does not brook disappointments...","brand":"Union Square \u0026 Co.","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":52344932729048,"sku":"9781454972983","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0833\/0369\/4552\/files\/imageloader_62207fee-a38a-4253-9bdc-2ad5bb57fe15.jpg?v=1788291046","url":"https:\/\/bigredbooks.shop\/products\/the-upper-tentacle","provider":"Big Red Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}