{"product_id":"9781504008150","title":"Against the Wind: An Autobiography","description":"\u003cb\u003eIn this fascinating and uniquely colorful autobiography, a twentieth-century master of suspense fiction candidly examines his extraordinary life, times, and art\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e One of the twentieth century’s most respected writers of adventure and espionage thrillers, Geoffrey Household penned more than twenty novels and short story collections in a career that spanned more than fifty years—and lived a life as eventful and surprising as his acclaimed, pulse-pounding fiction. In \u003ci\u003eAgainst the Wind\u003c\/i\u003e, the author whom the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ecredits with having “helped to develop the suspense story into an art form” shares his remarkable personal history with candor and wit, while exploring the creative process and his roles as a husband, father, bestselling popular artist, and citizen of his uniquely eventful time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e From his years as a student at the University of Oxford to his early career in the cutthroat world of international business and finance to his patriotic service with British intelligence during World War II, with perilous postings in Greece, Romania, and the Middle East that later informed his thrilling fiction, Household evocatively recalls a peripatetic life lived purposefully and often dangerously in some of the most colorful and fascinating regions of the globe.","brand":"Open Road Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47108350476528,"sku":"9781504008150","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781504008150_p0.jpg?v=1769896865","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781504008150","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}