{"product_id":"slow-motion-ghosts","title":"Slow Motion Ghosts","description":"\u003cp\u003e''Noon''s storytelling is assured and compelling ... it''s a belter'' \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Constantly surprising’ \u003ci\u003eSpectator\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA viciously occult murder.\u003cbr\u003eA curious clue left on the body.\u003cbr\u003eThe soundtrack to the murder still playing...\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is 1981 and Detective Inspector Henry Hobbes is still reeling in the aftermath of the fire and fury of the Brixton riots. The battle lines of society - and the police force - are being redrawn on a daily basis. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith the certainties of his life already sorely tested, a brutal murder will shake his beliefs to their very core once more. The manner of the death and its staged circumstances pose many questions to which there are no obvious answers. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo track the murderer, Hobbes must cross boundaries into a subculture hidden beneath the everyday world he thought he knew. His investigation takes him into a twisted reality, which is both seductive and devastating, and asks him the one question he has been dreading: How far will he go in pursuit of the truth?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJeff Noon\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of six acclaimed novels,\u003ci\u003e Vurt, Pollen, Automated Alice, Nymphomation, Needle in the Groove \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eFalling Out of Cars\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as two collections of short fictions, and is also the crime fiction reviewer for \u003ci\u003eThe Spectator\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in Brighton.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57316234723710,"sku":"NW9781784163532","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781784163532.jpg?v=1778718071","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/en-usa\/products\/slow-motion-ghosts","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}