{"product_id":"9781912248834","title":"Eminent Domain","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Neville, Carl\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eFiction \u0026amp; related items\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished on 9 June 2020 by Watkins Media (Repeater Books) in the United Kingdom.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback \/ softback | 460 pages\u003cbr\u003e130 x 197 x 39 | 436g\u003cp\u003eThe Cold War ended thirty years ago, the Communists have won in Europe and the world has settled into two blocks divided by a silicon curtain, The Partition. The tranquil backwater of the People's Republic of Britain is due to host an international sporting event, the Games, and  celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the country becoming a republic. When the organiser of the Games dies suddenly and his office is broken into, Barrow, the retired security operative enlisted to investigate, is drawn into a conspiracy that has implications not only for him and his team of young and inexperienced assistants, but for their entire way of life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow is the American research student Julia Verona implicated? Is some kind of attack being planned? Who is really in command of the operation? Is there a double agent within the PRBs security apparatus? What is the significance of the reclusive novelist Vernon Crane? Fusing the trappings of a literary thriller with experimental style, Eminent Domain explores the art, culture, politics, personalities, conflicts, loves and losses of a range of boldly realised characters in a Utopian world radically different to our own but recognizably the way that things, at one time, might have been. A kaleidoscopic satire of our present moment, Eminent Domain is both a dark thriller and a radical neo-modernist experiment that probes at the limits of Utopia, a formally dazzling reimagining of the political novel in which lives, worlds and even realities collide to devastating effect.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Neville, Carl","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42465896530104,"sku":"9781912248834","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0509\/1953\/8872\/files\/9781912248834.jpg?v=1734731002","url":"https:\/\/octoberbooks.org\/products\/9781912248834","provider":"October Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}