{"product_id":"the-violent-century","title":"The Violent Century","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cfont size=\"+1\"\u003e'An alternative history tour-de-force. Epic, intense and authentic . . . electric' - Tom Harper, author of \u003ci\u003eZodiac Station\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor seventy years they guarded the British Empire. Oblivion and Fogg, inseparable friends, bound together by a shared fate. Until one night in Berlin, in the aftermath of the Second World War, and a secret that tore them apart.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut there must always be an account . . . and the past has a habit of catching up to the present.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow, recalled to the Retirement Bureau from which no one can retire, Fogg and Oblivion must face up to a past of terrible war and unacknowledged heroism - a life of dusty corridors and secret rooms, of furtive meetings and blood-stained fields - to answer one last, impossible question:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"+1\"\u003eWhat makes a hero?\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e*******************\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for VIOLENT CENTURY:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Vintage Lavie, and also I think his most fully accomplished novel yet. If Nietzche had written an X-Men storyline whilst high on mescaline, it might have read something like VIOLENT CENTURY' - Adam Roberts, author of \u003ci\u003eJack Glass\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'A big, ambitious book that manages to deliver' - Glen Mehn\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'An elegiac espionage adventure that demands a second reading' - \u003ci\u003eMetro\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e'Provides an insight into what it takes to be human, and what can happen when we lay that humanity aside. It's a powerful novel, which will no doubt reward rereading' - Sci-Fi bulletin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxfordbookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44791289348275,"sku":"9781444762891","price":559.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0718\/4164\/4723\/files\/blk_imp_17478137119781444762891.jpg?v=1762855618","url":"https:\/\/oxfordbookstore.com\/products\/the-violent-century","provider":"Oxfordbookstore ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}