{"product_id":"the-ponce-factor-9798987789018","title":"The Ponce Factor","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn a nondescript lab in a juice factory in Florida, young chemist Caleb Lee accidentally discovers a juice formula that \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003estops human aging\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e. When the news leaks, the world erupts in chaos as crowds clamor for the juice. While Lee and his girlfriend flee to a hideaway, Medgar Landros, World Health Organization honcho and ex-special forces battlefield surgeon is summoned to the White House to help respond to the juice, now named the \u003cstrong\u003ePonce Factor\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart rumination on the Great Circle of Life and part kidnap thriller, we follow our hero Landros, Lee, and a cast of characters that includes Pastor Angela Nero, an unscrupulous minister who believes the Ponce Factor has been given to the world's elite to ensure their exclusive place alongside God. As Nero's plot approaches culmination, Landros plans desperate action of his own after he concludes that the government's inept response is \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eleading the world to destruction\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e and Pastor Nero and her followers to immortal ascension. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis road leads to a frantic race to save his own daughter from Nero's plot. Along the path lurks murder, romance, weaponized anthrax, political graft, and a kidnapping ending in a hero's death - all mixed in a soup of \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eprofound questions about our world\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e. What will Ponce mean for societies, for institutions, for governments? How does marriage and family work? Children?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese questions swirl around the characters as they barrel down separate paths to a small Washington D.C. apartment where they come together in a cataclysmic finale. The woman who would be God meets the final test -- \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eeternal life or sudden death\u003c\/em\u003e?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e J. D. Crawford\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bungalow Blue Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/14\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 346\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.97lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.77d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798987789018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/0001\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bungalow Blue Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":41207746166899,"sku":"9.79899E+12","price":13.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_ab8925b0-f581-40c2-8fb4-00fdf8e8b9a6.jpg?v=1704812257","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/the-ponce-factor-9798987789018","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}