{"product_id":"9780957490116","title":"Before the Unpleasantness","description":"\u003cp\u003eA comedy\/thriller based on WWII's 'Operation Mincemeat'. Jeeves \u0026amp; Wooster style wit. I am sure you have heard of 'Operation Mincemeat' the ingenious plan to land a dead man on a Spanish beach - to fool the Nazis and send their jack-booted, Panzer-clad, stiff-armed, blond-haired boys up the wrong alley. Allow me to let you into a secret. I was the rehearsal, some months before hostilities began; before the unpleasantness, so to speak. I was the practice run; the 'upper-class twit' sent on a wild goose chase, scattering fair Albion's imminent enemies hither and thither. And, if I were to die in the process, so be it. So long as the suitcase full of faux documents survived, I, Pelham Hardiman was of no consequence. But, my friend, I can tell you their greatest error, their erreur greates, they forgot they were dealing with an Englishman, and a Hardimann at that. And let us not forget the femme fatale. This story has also been written as an eight episode TV script.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Beswick \u0026 Beswick Publishing House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49807982756080,"sku":"9780957490116","price":20.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780957490116","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}