{"product_id":"9781910167670","title":"Red Joker","description":"\u003cp\u003eWilliam Faraday, a raw young recruit to television news, longs to join the close jealous band of foreign correspondents – that exclusive, hard drinking, hard swearing, whoring world of the cynical professional.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHis break comes when he is sent to cover a Marxist coup on a tiny coral island in the Indian Ocean just off the east coast of Africa.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBut Faraday is quickly disillusioned. Nothing matches his expectations. The Marxist takeover is less of a coup than \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ea hiccough, and the famous globetrotting war correspondents seem nothing more than middle-aged, drunken hacks.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBut history turns in a second and Faraday finds himself suddenly in love and in the middle of the biggest story in Africa. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHis innocence is lost in the violence of war. Faraday is bloodied. Brutality, murder and rape all play their part in a \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eplot that ends in a deadly explosive game of hide and seek.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIt is a story that is already secretly happening in Africa. It is a story that could hit your headlines tomorrow.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Apostrophe Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47154165842160,"sku":"9781910167670","price":2.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781910167670_p0.jpg?v=1763626789","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781910167670","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}