{"product_id":"2940045016599","title":"The Dancing Boy","description":"\u003cp\u003eEvery week, thirty British troops seek medical help, the toll of combat in Afghanistan.\u003cbr\u003eA total of 3,021 were diagnosed with ‘Adjustment disorder’ between May 2010 and April 2012.\u003cbr\u003eIn the US and elsewhere, this figure is significantly higher.\u003cbr\u003eSymptoms include self-harm, drug abuse and anxiety attacks.\u003cbr\u003eThis is an account of Tom Gillet, who, to the detriment of his sanity and family, refuses point-blank to acknowledge these symptoms\u003cbr\u003eWith the Afghan heat blinding his sight, Tom Gillet, a young British soldier, is dragged back from an IED by Shafiq, a small Afghan boy. Luckily, he only loses a foot and not his life.\u003cbr\u003eShafiq isn’t so fortunate. His family is murdered by the Taliban as a warning to those who help the coalition forces, and he is sold into a child trafficking ring as a dancing boy.\u003cbr\u003eDischarged from the army and on the threshold of PTSD, Gillet feels forced to return to Afghanistan to search for the boy in the hope of finding him a better life.\u003cbr\u003eBut what he encounters is shock, betrayal and lies.\u003cbr\u003eWhen he returns home to the UK, he finds himself drawn into the horrors of a world he never knew existed behind the closed doors of immigrant Britain.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Roy E. Stolworthy","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47082072244464,"sku":"2940045016599","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940045016599_p0.jpg?v=1763673462","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940045016599","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}