{"product_id":"a-very-british-ending-isbn-9781910050774","title":"A Very British Ending","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA gripping espionage thriller about an establishment plot to take control of 1970s Britain, by a writer who is 'poised to inherit the mantle of John le Carre'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'The thinking person's John le Carré' \u003ci\u003eTribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 'Edward Wilson seems poised to inherit the mantle of John le Carré' \u003ci\u003eIrish Independent\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e'More  George Smiley than James Bond, Catesby will delight those readers   looking for less blood and more intelligence in their spy thrillers' \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn MI6 officer, haunted by the ghosts of an SS atrocity, kills a Nazi war criminal in the ruins of a U-boat bunker. The German turns out to be a CIA asset being rat-lined to South America.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs a hungry Britain freezes in the winter of 1947, a young cabinet minister negotiates a deal with Moscow trading Rolls-Royce jet engines for cattle fodder and wood. Both have made powerful enemies with long memories. The fates of the two men become entwined as one rises through MI6 and the other to Downing Street. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd as Britain stumbles into the  mid-1970s, a coup d'etat is imminent.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Very British Ending\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eis the \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWolf Hall \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eof power games in modern Britain. Senior MI6 officers, Catesby and Bone, try to outwit a cabal of plotters trying to overthrow the Prime Minister. The author once again reveals the dark underside of the Secret State on both sides of the Atlantic.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eA fantastic read' \u003ci\u003eCulture Matters\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'The best espionage story you'll read this year or any other' \u003ci\u003eCrime Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for Edward Wilson: \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Stylistically sophisticated . . . Wilson knows how to hold the reader's attention' W.G. Sebald\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A reader is really privileged to come across something like this' Alan Sillitoe\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'All  too often, amid the glitzy gadgetry of the spy thriller, all the   fast  cars and sexual adventures, we lose sight of the essential    seriousness of what is at stake. John le Carré reminds us, often, and  so  does Edward Wilson' \u003ci\u003eIndependent\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Arcadia Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44897272430821,"sku":"NP9781910050774","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/37b965db-3c8e-4230-854c-aecd017688cf.jpg?v=1767817485","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/a-very-british-ending-isbn-9781910050774","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}