{"product_id":"the-occidental-book-of-the-dead-2","title":"The Occidental Book of the Dead","description":"The Wire meets Colson Whitehead in this audacious, darkly funny and absorbing literary crime masterpiece about a black police officer in Atlanta, Georgia George Washington Jonson grew up in one of Atlanta's poorest housing projects, but has made a new life for himself. After serving abroad in the U.S. Army, he joined the police force and has been a decade on the job, patrolling the streets he grew up on and managing to build relationships within the force - especially with Tucker, the veteran police officer and self-described 'redneck' who taught Jonson the ropes.   Now it's 2005 and Jonson himself is tasked with training hot-headed rookie recruits. One night out on patrol with his trainee, Utner, a split-second confrontation with a white teenager takes a violent turn and Utner shoots the teenager dead. The ramifications of that single fatal gunshot radiate outwards across two decades - and as the furore around the case mounts to a fever pitch, it threatens to expose the complex nest of lies that seethes beneath not only the Atlanta police force, but the entire city ...","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57499374977397,"sku":"9780349149226","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/the-occidental-book-of-the-dead-2","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}