{"product_id":"the-fire-stone-hawkes-nick-9780648110378","title":"The Fire Stone","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn assassin; an aimless binge-drinker; an Anglican cleric and a girl with a cello are forced to flee to Vanuatu to escape violence. Their histories and their future intersect at the point of a mysterious opal, The Fire Stone.\u003cbr\u003e Sebastian, a young farm hand living in the Australian mallee is being watched by Val, a fugitive hiding in the forests on the banks of the River Murray. Val has an official document that confirms his death fourteen years ago. There is no official document that confirms his particular skill: assassin.\u003cbr\u003e Pip divides her life between her musical studies at the Adelaide Conservatorium and her work as a barista. Her ordered life is shattered when bullets fired through the window of her home reduce her cello to matchwood. The violence appears all the more bewildering given that she lives with her father David, an Anglican cleric and retired missionary.\u003cbr\u003e A web of violence draws all four of them together.\u003cbr\u003e Everything in Sebastian's life begins to change when he is given the gift of a beautiful opal--The Fire Stone. It begins a journey in which he discovers more about his past, is challenged by David's wisdom and confronted by Pip's love.\u003cbr\u003e The four of them seek to escape the violence that pursues them by sailing across the Pacific to the islands of Vanuatu. There, in the village community of Lamap, the final drama is played out...\u003cbr\u003e ...before The Fire Stone makes an unexpected return.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Hawkes Nick\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0648110370\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780648110378\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Hawkesflight Media\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/08\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 298\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.97lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.67d","brand":"Hawkes Nick","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43942652641535,"sku":"9780648110378","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_d7519152-4db6-4ffb-b771-d8ad704a6d2d.jpg?v=1681493584","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-fire-stone-hawkes-nick-9780648110378","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}