{"product_id":"world-pacific-peter-mann-9780063375352","title":"World Pacific","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker \u003c\/i\u003eBest Book of 2025\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Terrific . . . John le Carré meets Evelyn Waugh.\"--\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e (starred review)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet in San Francisco and the Asian Pacific during the outbreak of the Second World War, a darkly comic novel of intrigue, adventure, and the perils of self-invention from the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Torqued Man.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1939, boys' adventure writer Richard Halifax vanishes in the Pacific while sailing from Hong Kong to San Francisco as part of the World's Fair festivities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHildegard Rauch, an émigré painter and the daughter of Germany's greatest living writer in exile, finds her twin brother in a coma after an attempted suicide, leaving behind a mysterious note that sends her searching for the truth about her brother's relationship with Richard Halifax and the dangerous secret he entrusted to the writer before his voyage.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSimon Faulk, a British intelligence officer hunting Nazi spies in California, learns of the arrival of a mysterious American agent from across the Pacific, part of a joint German-Japanese operation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTold in the alternating voices of these three characters whose fates intersect, \u003ci\u003eWorld Pacific\u003c\/i\u003e is a madcap, quixotic tale that explores the many forms of shipwreck, exile, betrayal, and the stories we tell ourselves in the fight to stay afloat.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Peter Mann\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0063375354\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780063375352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harper Perennial\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/29\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 400\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Peter Mann","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49001224306943,"sku":"9780063375352","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/world-pacific-peter-mann-9780063375352","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}