{"product_id":"underground","title":"Underground","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eUnderground is the novel that at least half the country has been waiting for.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThink ahead five or so years from now, to an Australia transformed by the never-ending war on terror. Canberra has been wiped out in a nuclear attack. There is a permanent state of emergency. Security checkpoints, citizenship tests, identity cards and detention without trial have all become the norm. Suspect minorities have been locked away into ghettos. And worse: no one wants to play cricket with us anymore.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEnter Leo James burnt-out property developer and black-sheep twin brother of the all-powerful Bernard James, Prime Minister of Australia. In an event all too typical of the times, Leo finds himself abducted by terrorists.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBut this won't be your average kidnapping. Instead, vast and secret forces are at work here, and Leo and his captors are about to embark on a journey into the underworld of a nation gone mad.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLike some bastard child of Dr Strangelove and George Orwell, Underground is both an adrenalin-pumped thriller and a gleefully barbed satire that takes a chainsaw to political neo-correctness and Australia's new ultra-nationalism. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Andrew McGahan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42933991080105,"sku":"9781741149319","price":9.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0424\/9518\/0962\/products\/mcgahan.jpg?v=1677212829","url":"https:\/\/roseyravelstonbooks.com.au\/products\/underground","provider":"RoseyRavelston Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}