{"product_id":"2940169915525","title":"Prague Spring","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author Simon Mawer returns to Czechoslovakia, this time during the turbulent 1960s, with a suspenseful story of sex, politics, and betrayal. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the summer of 1968, the year of the Prague Spring with a Cold War winter, Oxford students James Borthwick and Eleanor Pike set out to hitchhike across Europe, complicating a budding friendship that could be something more. Having reached southern Germany, they decide on a whim to visit Czechoslovakia, where Alexander Dubcek's \"socialism with a human face\" is smiling on the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMeanwhile, Sam Wareham, First Secretary at the British embassy in Prague, observes developments in the country with a diplomat's cynicism and a young man's passion. In the company of Czech student Lenka Koneckova, he finds a way into the world of Czechoslovak youth, with all its hopes and new ideas; now, nothing seems off-limits behind the Iron Curtain. But the great wheels of politics are grinding in the background; Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev is making demands of Dubcek, and the Red Army is massing on the borders.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis shrewd, engrossing, and sensual novel once again proves Simon Mawer is one of today's most talented writers of historical spy fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Blackstone Audio, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47100508307696,"sku":"2940169915525","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169915525_p0.jpg?v=1769903017","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169915525","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}