{"product_id":"2940169154627","title":"Empty Hearts: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA prescient political and psychological thriller ripped from tomorrow's headlines, by one of Germany's most celebrated contemporary novelists\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA few short years from now, the world is an even more uncertain place than it is today, and politics everywhere is marching rightward: Trump is gone, but Brexit is complete, as is Frexit; there's a global financial crisis, armed conflict, mass migration, and an ultrapopulist movement governs in Germany. With their democracy facing the wrecking ball, most well-off Germans turn inward, focusing on their own lives. Britta, a wife, mother, and successful businesswoman, ignores the daily news and concentrates on her family and her work running a clinic specializing in suicide prevention.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut her legitimate business is connected to a secret and far more lucrative operation known as The Bridge, an outfit that supplies terrorist organizations looking to employ suicide bombers. Using a complex candidate-identifying algorithm designed by Babak, a brilliant programmer and Britta's only employee, The Bridge has effectively cornered the market, and terrorism almost never takes place without Britta's servicesamp;mdash;which is why news of a thwarted suicide attack in Leipzig comes as a shock. Then The Bridge's database is stolen and a colleague at the clinic murdered, driving Britta, Babak, and their latest recruit into hiding. On their heels is a new terrorist organization called Empty Hearts, a group unlike any they've encountered before.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart suspenseful thriller, part wickedly effective social satire, \u003ci\u003eEmpty Hearts\u003c\/i\u003e is a novel for our times, examining urgent questions of morality, politics, and culture, and presenting a startling vision of a future where empathy is a thing of the past.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47116459606256,"sku":"2940169154627","price":17.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169154627_p0.jpg?v=1763763418","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169154627","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}