{"product_id":"the-destroyers","title":"The Destroyers","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Destroyers is a smart, sophisticated literary thriller; for all its originality, it invokes the shades of Lawrence Durrell and Graham Greene' Jay McInerney, author of Bright, Precious Days\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n                    \u003cp\u003eWhen Charlie and I were young, we played a game called Destroyers . . . We were sharpening our instincts, jettisoning attachments. We were honing strategies for survival ...\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n                    \u003cp\u003eIan Bledsoe is on the run, broke and humiliated, fleeing the emotional and financial fallout of his father's death. His childhood friend Charlie - rich, exuberant and basking in life on the Greek island of Patmos - is his last hope.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n                     \u003cp\u003eAt first, Patmos is like a dream - sun-soaked days on Charlie's yacht and the reappearance of a girlfriend from Ian's past - and Charlie readily offers the lifeline he desperately needs. But, like Charlie himself, this beautiful island conceals a darkness beneath. When he vanishes leaving behind his murky business affairs, Ian finds himself caught in a terrifying labyrinth of deceits. As boys, the pair played a game called Destroyers - a game, he now realizes, they may never have stopped playing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n                    \u003cp\u003eExpansive, vivid and suspenseful, in the vein of Donna Tartt's The Goldfinch, The Destroyers is a mesmerizing drama of power and fate, fathers and sons, self-invention and self-deception.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n                     \u003cp\u003e'Equal parts Graham Greene, Patricia Highsmith and F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Destroyers is at once lyrical and suspenseful, thoughtful and riveting' Garth Greenwell, author of What Belongs to You\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n                     \u003cp\u003e`The Destroyers manages to be both fast-paced and contemplative, an excellent entertainment and also something more lasting, a haunting meditation on friendship and desperation' Guardian, Best Holiday Reads of 2017\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Scribner UK","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42973014622374,"sku":"9781471136184","price":19.9,"currency_code":"MYR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0443\/8471\/4918\/products\/the-destroyers-9781471136184-28454854099122.jpg?v=1656045983","url":"https:\/\/bookxcess.myshopify.com\/products\/the-destroyers","provider":"Staging Site ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}