{"product_id":"a-trojan-affair-michael-smorenburg-9781976046896","title":"A Trojan Affair: The SKA at Carnarvon","description":"In this tale of zealots, scientists and scoundrels, Michael Smorenburg has married tension-filled intrigue and drama with cutting-edge, unfolding science to produce a compelling geopolitical thriller. Conflict, suspicion and fear explode across the pages as science confronts religion in Carnarvon, a small, staunchly conservative farming community in post-Apartheid South Africa. The silent heavens stretched above the pious town are perfect for radio astronomy-the fracking bounty below the earth... irresistible... and the two cannot coexist-the local population want neither. When Dara, 17, half Indian and raised in England, arrives in the heartland of this Calvinist Bible belt-a place his astrophysicist mother has come to build the biggest infrastructure in the history of science, the $2.5-Billion SKA radio telescope-he becomes the lightening rod for the town's anger and suspicion of outsiders. Fracking and astronomy are not good bedfellows and Dara might just have lit the fuse. And so unfolds a cascade of controversy, agendas and surprising alliances. Based on actual unfolding events, A Trojan Affair is a contemporary geopolitical thriller where science, religion, politics, greed and racism collide, tearing a community apart and setting generations against one another.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Michael Smorenburg\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1976046890\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781976046896\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Createspace Independent Publishing Platform\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/28\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.14lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.79d","brand":"Michael Smorenburg","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48136962015487,"sku":"9781976046896","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9e80e7c7-c047-42eb-b5c8-98fb59242fd8.jpg?v=1770165620","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-trojan-affair-michael-smorenburg-9781976046896","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}