{"product_id":"9780063375352","title":"World Pacific","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker \u003c\/i\u003eBest Book of 2025\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“Terrific . . . John le Carré meets Evelyn Waugh.”—\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e (starred review)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHildegard Rauch, an émigré 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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":"HarperCollins","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":51739806007542,"sku":"9780063375352","price":24.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0607\/6275\/1222\/files\/BNCImageAPI_df57fc73-7ece-4800-b341-f4ebd4c083a3.jpg?v=1790276082","url":"https:\/\/alphaandomegabooks.ca\/products\/9780063375352","provider":"Alpha And Omega Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}