{"product_id":"dirty-tricks-9780375700095","title":"Dirty Tricks","description":"A comedy of manners, a mystery thriller, and a sardonic satire whose deliciously unscrupulous narrator claims that everything he did regarding his victims was \"market-led,\" \u003cb\u003eDirty Tricks\u003c\/b\u003e is pure entertainment from one of the most inventive writers around. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen the nameless narrator embarks upon an affair with Karen, a seemingly vapid P.E. teacher married to a boring accountant, he does not know her fetish is for adultery while her husband is in the room or loitering nearby. But once he finds out, he doesn't care. He has been abroad for twenty years, and since his return to merry old England he's been startlingly uninhibited by morals or a conscience. Which is not only why he eventually gets involved with blackmail, a kidnapping, and two murders, but also how, with hilariously syllogistic logic, he's able to justify his role in all of it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Vintage Crime\/Black Lizard\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/08\/2003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780375700095\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.44lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.07h x 5.30w x 0.59d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2003 pg. 215\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2003\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Michael Dibdin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52136346386613,"sku":"9780375700095","price":10.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_7e548e37-68c6-46d6-8907-83e433e9a32d.jpg?v=1767114077","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/dirty-tricks-9780375700095","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}