{"product_id":"custody-chain-ledger-city-book-five","title":"Custody Chain: Book Five of the Ledger City Series","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"14312\" data-end=\"14373\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"14312\" data-end=\"14373\"\u003eThe warehouse said logistics.\u003cbr data-start=\"14343\" data-end=\"14346\"\u003eThe records said custody.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"14375\" data-end=\"14617\"\u003eIn \u003cstrong data-start=\"14378\" data-end=\"14397\"\u003e\u003cem data-start=\"14380\" data-end=\"14395\"\u003eCustody Chain\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e, Darius Blackman returns to Ledger City with a novel about labor, public contracts, reentry, carceral control, and the hidden systems that keep people moving through institutions long after they are supposed to be free.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"14619\" data-end=\"14924\"\u003eLeon Vale needs the warehouse job to be a step forward. Recently out of county custody, carrying debt, family responsibility, and the hope of rebuilding his life, he accepts work at Meridian Civic Logistics under the language of community supervision, transitional work, and public-service rehabilitation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"14926\" data-end=\"14967\"\u003eThen Junie Bell shows him the wrong form.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"14969\" data-end=\"14999\"\u003eIt is not a shipping manifest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"15001\" data-end=\"15030\"\u003eIt is a chain-of-custody log.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"15032\" data-end=\"15060\"\u003eAnd it does not track goods.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"15062\" data-end=\"15079\"\u003eIt tracks people.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"15081\" data-end=\"15406\"\u003eAs Leon begins to understand that workers are being moved through public contracts like inventory, Meridian’s connection to institutional power becomes impossible to ignore. Gray vans. Hidden routes. Intake codes. Shift assignments. Transfer holds. Clean paperwork built to make bodies disappear without calling it captivity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"15408\" data-end=\"15635\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"15408\" data-end=\"15427\"\u003e\u003cem data-start=\"15410\" data-end=\"15425\"\u003eCustody Chain\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e is a social suspense novel about forced labor, reentry exploitation, public procurement, warehouse logistics, carceral systems, and the people brave enough to expose a machine that calls control opportunity.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Darius Blackman Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44167144243236,"sku":null,"price":8.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0750\/9986\/5124\/files\/CustodyChainCover.jpg?v=1778347462","url":"https:\/\/dariusblackmanpublishing.com\/products\/custody-chain-ledger-city-book-five","provider":"Darius Blackman Publishing","version":"1.0","type":"link"}