{"product_id":"9780571304530","title":"The Implacable Hunter","description":"\u003cp\u003e'[This] is the story of the beginning and the end of St Paul, that most complicated and worrying of all the saints. The narrator is Diomed, a colonial officer stationed at Tarsus, enlightened, intelligent, a great fraterniser with the patrician natives, [who] sends the strange young Jew to persecute the Nazarenes... [Kersh brings] a highly concentrated area of Roman colonial history to very real life - the ornate wine-cup, the crapulous cold fruit-juice at dawn, dust on a sandal... King Jesus is here, all the time... the fly-itch nuisance to the Empire that wakes its prefects up in nightmare... This is a masterly book, full of live people and a live age, live language, too... We may adjudge Mr Kersh, after reading \u003ci\u003eThe Implaccable Hunter\u003c\/i\u003e, to be now at the height of his powers.' \u003cbr\u003eAnthony Burgess, \u003ci\u003eYorkshire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e Post\u003c\/i\u003e, 1961\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Faber and Faber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47124425474288,"sku":"9780571304530","price":16.03,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780571304530_p0.jpg?v=1763718997","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780571304530","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}