{"product_id":"9780571315499","title":"The Paris Trap","description":"\u003cp\u003eJoseph Hone's \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Trap\u003c\/i\u003e, first published in 1977, saw him step aside from his sequence of 'Peter Marlow' novels to offer a different kind of political thriller.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJim Hackett and Harry Tyson first met in Paris, in days of hope - Hackett a promising actor, Tyson a budding writer. Twenty years later, their dreams soured, they are reunited in Paris for a substantive project: Hackett, now a movie actor, has been cast in a major film derived from a spy novel authored by Tyson, who now works for British intelligence. But the plot of the film, concerning a Palestinian terrorist cell, is about to be overtaken in the dramatic stakes by real events.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'A fine example of a vastly popular genre - the thinking man's thriller.' \u003ci\u003eIrish Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Through a distorting filter of betrayals, private and public, Joseph Hone conducts us to a final scene so dire that Hamlet by comparison leaves the stage tidy.' \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Faber and Faber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47103580602608,"sku":"9780571315499","price":14.57,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780571315499_p0.jpg?v=1763719138","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780571315499","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}