{"product_id":"world-pacific","title":"World Pacific","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker \u003c\/i\u003eBest Book of 2025\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e';Terrific . . . John le Carre meets Evelyn Waugh.'\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e (starred review)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet in San Francisco and the Asian Pacific during the outbreak of the Second World War, a darkly comic novel of intrigue, adventure, and the perils of self-invention from the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Torqued Man.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1939, boys' adventure writer Richard Halifax vanishes in the Pacific while sailing from Hong Kong to San Francisco as part of the World's Fair festivities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHildegard Rauch, an emigre painter and the daughter of Germany's greatest living writer in exile, finds her twin brother in a coma after an attempted suicide, leaving behind a mysterious note that sends her searching for the truth about her brother's relationship with Richard Halifax and the dangerous secret he entrusted to the writer before his voyage.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSimon Faulk, a British intelligence officer hunting Nazi spies in California, learns of the arrival of a mysterious American agent from across the Pacific, part of a joint German-Japanese operation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTold in the alternating voices of these three characters whose fates intersect, \u003ci\u003eWorld Pacific\u003c\/i\u003e is a madcap, quixotic tale that explores the many forms of shipwreck, exile, betrayal, and the stories we tell ourselves in the fight to stay afloat.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57495460610421,"sku":"9780063375352","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/world-pacific","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}