{"product_id":"while-they-were-dying-samuel-peter-shaw-9781475951868","title":"While They Were Dying: The Road to Iraq","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eFor the Sink Set, a group of moneyed sophisticates, the distant death and destruction of the 2003 Iraq War is sobering but coincidental, a backdrop against which they shrug and carry on. In leafy Surrey, all seems as it ever was...\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e --\u003c\/em\u003eA view from America's closest ally of a numbing, hi-tech war launched on an unproved pretext; of the consequent world-wide mass protests, murderous bombings, Government denials, political resignations, judicial inquiries, blazing headlines, impassioned speeches...\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSamuel Peter Shaw's novel blends fact with fiction to show how governments can lose their way...how nations can awake too late...how counter-argument can become futile.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGradually, the horrors and political manoeuvrings of the war are mirrored in the disintegration of the prize-winning architect, Colly Wolfson. For him, the war becomes entwined with two earlier, lasting tragedies.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDisturbed, and with his marriage crumbling, Wolfson drifts into simultaneous love affairs--and the cracks in his life begin to spread through the Sink Set...\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStep by step, they unhinge him; the obsessions of Blair and Bush invade his own obsessions; his closest friends become infected--and the path to redemption seems forever downwards...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Samuel Peter Shaw\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1475951868\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781475951868\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e iUniverse\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/18\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 270\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.57d","brand":"Samuel Peter Shaw","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48458609033471,"sku":"9781475951868","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_6fed6588-e7b5-420b-906b-e4b097e92947.jpg?v=1777405493","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/while-they-were-dying-samuel-peter-shaw-9781475951868","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}