{"product_id":"books-standoff-by-jamie-thompson","title":"Standoff","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eStandoff\u003c\/i\u003e is award-winning journalist Jamie Thompson's gripping account of a deadly night in Dallas, told through the eyes of those at the center of the events, who offer a nuanced look at race and policing in America.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e On the evening of July 7, 2016, protesters gathered in cities across the nation after police shot two Black men, Philando Castile and Alton Sterling. As officers patrolled a march in Dallas, a young man stepped out of an SUV wearing a bulletproof vest and carrying a high-powered rifle. He killed five officers and wounded eleven others.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e It fell to a small group of cops to corner the shooter inside a community college, where a fierce gun battle was followed by a stalemate. The crisis negotiator Larry Gordon, a twenty-one-year department veteran, spent hours bonding with the gunman--over childhood ghosts and death and shared experiences of racial injustice in America--while his colleagues devised an unprecedented plan to bring the night to its dramatic end.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Thompson's minute-by-minute account includes intimate portrayals of the negotiator, a surgeon who operated on the fallen officers, a mother of four shot down in the street, and the SWAT officers tasked with stopping the gunman. This is a deeply affecting story of real people navigating a terrifying crisis and a city's attempts to heal its divisions.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54421112094993,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781250813848.jpg?v=1787582785","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/books-standoff-by-jamie-thompson","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}