{"product_id":"ithica-paul-sharpless-9781764500302","title":"Ithica","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eITHICA\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen your own government wants you dead, is it the end - or the beginning?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIthica\u003c\/em\u003e is a \u003cstrong\u003edarkly comic gay psychological farce\u003c\/strong\u003e set inside the implosion of a secret Australian intelligence agency.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTruth is negotiable. Justice is theatre. Survival is a role you learn to play.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntelligence \u003cstrong\u003eanalyst\u003c\/strong\u003e Anthea Tonelli watches colleagues disappear - not to foreign enemies, but to their own employer. Corrupt judges. Silent trials. \u003cstrong\u003eMurderous\u003c\/strong\u003e institutional cruelty. \u003cstrong\u003eSurvival becomes strategy.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSex is escape. It's also leverage. Protection. Currency.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt threads through offices, bars, safe houses - shaping alliances and sealing outcomes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs AI accelerates and human control slips, the system turns inward. Anthea must decide what survival costs: resistance - or surrender to the absurd, erotic machinery of power.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIthica\u003c\/em\u003e is not a conspiracy novel. \u003cstrong\u003eConspiracies only exist when you don't have all the facts.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd yes - it's a comedy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Paul Sharpless\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 176450030X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781764500302\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Sharpless Paper \u0026amp; Light\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/26\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 232\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.53d","brand":"Paul Sharpless","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49001117778175,"sku":"9781764500302","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/ithica-paul-sharpless-9781764500302","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}