{"product_id":"9780349106458","title":"The Dead Heart by Douglas Kennedy","description":"That dumbshit map.  I'd been seduced by it.  Seduced by its possibilities.  That map had brought me here ... That map had been a serious mistake'The map in question is of Australia, stumbled across in a second-hand bookshop by American journalist Nick Hawthorne, en route to another dead-end hack job in Akron, Ohio.  Seduced by all that wilderness, all that NOTHING, Nick decides to put his midlife crisis on hold and light out to the ultimate nowheresville - where a chance encounter throws him into a sun-baked orgy of surf, sex and swill, and a nightmare from which there is no escape.   'Douglas Kennedy might never be allowed into Australia again.  This is a crazy, compulsive ultimately serious thriller and a bravura fictional debut from one of our best travel writers' Philip Kerr\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56286781047157,"sku":"9780349106458","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780349106458.jpg?v=1762709992","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9780349106458","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}