{"product_id":"around-the-world-in-40-matthew-james-hammett-9798257892509","title":"Around The World In 40 Days","description":"\u003cp\u003eLondon, 1915.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA private invitation. Eight strangers. One absurd proposition: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCircle the globe in forty days and claim a fortune.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt begins as a spectacle. Newspapers bite, investors circle, and the competitors scatter across a world already tearing itself apart. Steamships, railways, early aircraft, improvised routes through ports that don't welcome questions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSome run the race.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSome study it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSome were placed there for reasons that have nothing to do with winning.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProgress is uneven. Plans collapse. Identities shift. The rules, such as they are, prove negotiable. Every leg of the journey reveals a little more of the machinery behind it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd the uncomfortable truth settles in: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis isn't a test of speed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt's a test of people.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcross war zones and trade routes, through ingenuity, luck, and the occasional moment of complete absurdity, the race becomes something else entirely-something designed, observed, and quietly controlled.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNot everyone is meant to finish.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Matthew James Hammett\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798257892509\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/18\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 230\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.69lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.52d","brand":"Matthew James Hammett","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49173190770943,"sku":"9798257892509","price":12.15,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/around-the-world-in-40-matthew-james-hammett-9798257892509","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}