{"product_id":"9781466863224","title":"The Book of the Heathen: A Novel of the Congo","description":"\u003cp\u003e1897. In an isolated station in the Belgian Congo, an Englishman is to be tried for the murder of a native child. Imprisoned in a makeshift jail, Nicholas Frere awaits the arrival of the Company's official investigator while his friend, James Frasier, attempts to discover the circumstances which surround the charge.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe world around them is rapidly changing: the horrors of the Belgian Congo are becoming known and the flow of its once-fabulous wealth is drying up. Unrest flares unstoppably into violence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrere's coming trial will seek to determine considerably more than the killing of a child. But at the heart of this conflict is a secret so dark, so unimaginable, that one man must be willingly destroyed by his possession of it, and the other must both sanction and participate in that destruction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a narrative of ever-quickening and growing intensity, \u003ci\u003eThe Book of the Heathen\u003c\/i\u003e explores notions of honor, friendship, justice and reason in a world where men have been forced by circumstance to descend into an abyss of savagery and terror. Robert Edric's \u003ci\u003eThe Book of the Heathen \u003c\/i\u003eis a stunning novel that truly evokes a Conradian heart of darkness.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"St. Martin's Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47144001110256,"sku":"9781466863224","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781466863224_p0.jpg?v=1769891600","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781466863224","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}