{"product_id":"inversions-9781982156107","title":"Inversions","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn engrossing portrait of an alien world and two very different people bound by a startling and mysterious secret from the internationally bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Player of Games \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eConsider Phlebas\u003c\/i\u003e Iain M. Banks.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOn a backward world with six moons, an alert spy reports on the doings of one Dr. Vosill, who has mysteriously become the personal physician to the king despite being a foreigner and, even more unthinkably, a woman. Vosill has more enemies than she first realizes. But she also has more remedies in hand than those who wish ill can ever guess. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eElsewhere, in another palace across the mountains, a man named DeWar serves as chief bodyguard to the Protector General of Tassasen, a profession he describes as the business of \"assassinating assassins.\" DeWar, too, has his enemies, but his foes strike more swiftly, and his means of combating them are more direct. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNo one trusts the doctor, and the bodyguard trusts no one, but is there a hidden commonality linking their disparate histories? Spiraling around a central core of mystery, deceit, love, and betrayal, \u003ci\u003eInversions\u003c\/i\u003e is a dazzling work of science fiction from \"a talent to be reckoned with\" (\u003ci\u003eLocus Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e) at the height of his remarkable powers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Gallery Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/05\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781982156107\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 384\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.59lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.25h x 5.31w x 0.88d","brand":"Iain M. Banks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43166169628853,"sku":"9781982156107","price":16.14,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_f353cdeb-e853-4359-ae54-4d4ecc4997e6.jpg?v=1696921804","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/inversions-9781982156107","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}