{"product_id":"fifth-risk","title":"Fifth Risk","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e''W\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eill set your hair on end'' \u003ci\u003eTelegraph\u003c\/i\u003e, Top 50 Books of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''I forgot to breathe while reading \u003ci\u003eThe Fifth Risk\u003c\/i\u003e'' Michael Hofmann, \u003ci\u003eTLS\u003c\/i\u003e, Books of the Year\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe bestselling, no-holds-barred exposé of the people who are wrecking our democracy, by the master storyteller of our times  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''The election happened ... And then there was radio silence.''\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe   morning after Trump was elected president, the people who ran the US   Department of Energy - an agency that deals with some of the most   powerful risks facing humanity - waited to welcome the incoming   administration''s transition team. Nobody appeared. Across the US   government, the same thing happened: nothing.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePeople don''t  notice  when stuff goes right. That is the stuff government does. It  manages  everything that underpins our lives from funding free school  meals, to  policing rogue nuclear activity, to predicting extreme  weather events.  It steps in where private investment fears to tread,  innovates and  creates knowledge, assesses extreme long-term risk. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd now, government is under attack. By its own leaders.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Fifth Risk\u003c\/i\u003e,   Michael Lewis reveals the combustible cocktail of wilful ignorance and   venality that is fuelling the destruction of a country''s fabric. All  of  this, Lewis shows, exposes America and the world to the biggest risk  of  all. It is what you never learned that might have saved you.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57319399948670,"sku":"NW9780141991429","price":10.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9780141991429.jpg?v=1778648803","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/fifth-risk","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}