{"product_id":"2940173758309","title":"Chimera","description":"\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 1989 \u003ci\u003eChimera\u003c\/i\u003e was Simon Mawer¿s first novel. Mawer is renowned as one of today's most talented writers of historical spy fiction.  \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThe fabulous Chimera amp;mdash; mythic monster, part lion, part goat, part serpent amp;mdash; is more that just an Etruscan bronze discovered by archaeologist David Hewison. It lurks in the background of this novel as a symbol of the man himself: part Italian, part English, an explorer of the past who is haunted by his own past when he parachuted into wartime Italy as an SOE agent. \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eYet this is not just a war story. \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eIt is within the present, in the complex little world of an archaeological dig in central Italy, that the past is seen to work amp;mdash; the old conflicts of the Hewison family and the tragedies of wartime Italy surfacing in the present to precipitate a disturbing climax.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. F. Howes","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47118325940464,"sku":"2940173758309","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940173758309_p0.jpg?v=1763859209","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940173758309","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}