{"product_id":"9781843910398","title":"The Tragedy of the Korosko","description":"Doyle's Riveting Psychological Thriller\u003cp\u003eThe Tragedy of The Korosko is the smallest of Conan Doyle's historical novels; but it is perhaps his most intense.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTen tourists from England, Ireland, America and France-six men and four women-are on a vacation trip down the Nile in 1895. Without warning they are captured by Islamic terrorists, and the possibility of rescue becomes more remote with each passing day. Their choice is a stark one: either convert to Islam and become slaves for the rest of their lives-or die.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith those as the only two possibilities-with heat, thirst and brutality as their only companions-Doyle explores the kind of heroism that can be found even in an average person when pushed to his or her limit.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The fire that smoldered in his arrogant eyes shone back at him from a hundred others. Here were to be read the strength and danger of the Mahdi movement; here in these convulsed faces, in that fringe of waving arms, in these frantic, red-hot souls, who asked nothing better than a bloody death, if their own hands might be bloody when they met it.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA masterful tale, told by a master story teller\u003cbr\u003eArthur Conan Doyle\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hesperus Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47057671913712,"sku":"9781843910398","price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781843910398_p0.jpg?v=1763742538","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781843910398","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}