{"product_id":"9781908943101","title":"The Crucible - Part 1","description":"Southern Cameroon, West Africa 1936\u003cbr\u003eA virus mutated and crossed the barrier from primate to human. In less than a century it had claimed the lives of twenty-five million people. Africa, a land of natural beauty and riches, ripe for plunder, full of dark menace.\u003cp\u003eIn a near future scenario of viral pandemic, global religious conflict, climate change and mass migration, America and the Middle East are locked in a religious fundamentalist race to Armageddon, while the old nations of Europe flex their imperial muscles. Will mankind rediscover the Garden of Eden or ignite the crucible of the apocalypse?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Europeans are using stealth and Thomas is the most deadly of mercenaries. Any conscience he had died with his wife and children under a blood-soaked African sun. He works for an agency with a taste for righting wrongs on a grand scale - an organisation with deep pockets, altruistic motives and a pragmatic approach to the dispensation of justice.\u003cbr\u003eGreg is a failed philanderer and small-time inventor, struggling to earn a crust for his family. When the enigmatic Thomas steals his identity, Greg is lured into a web of global corruption, conspiracy and murder. But are these unlikely friends really on the side of good or evil?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Marble City Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47062536650992,"sku":"9781908943101","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781908943101_p0.jpg?v=1763622344","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781908943101","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}