{"product_id":"my-name-is-michael-sibley-9781416540472","title":"My Name Is Michael Sibley","description":"FROM THE INTRODUCTION BY JOHN LE CARR  \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eThis novel comprises some of the best work of an extremely gifted and perhaps under-regarded British crime novelist....What gave John Bingham his magic was something we look for in every writer, too often in vain: an absolute command of the internal landscape of his characters, acutely observed by a humane but wonderfully corrosive eye.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Michael Sibley and John Prosset shared a history that dated back to their first years at boarding school, and so the news of Prosset's murder came as a great shock to his old friend -- especially because Sibley had been staying only the day before at Prosset's country house, where the body was found. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e When the police arrive to question him in connection with the murder, Sibley finds himself lying about his recent visit, and thus begins to reveal the true nature of a longstanding but volatile friendship, fraught with mutual deception and distrust. As he tells his version of the truth to the police -- and to the reader -- Sibley makes the first of many fateful mistakes and finds himself not only under suspicion, but a primary suspect in the investigation. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Seen through the eyes of Sibley himself, \u003ci\u003eMy Name Is Michael Sibley\u003c\/i\u003e is a mesmerizing account of murder, as the narrator purposefully attempts to elude the police and prove his innocence to the reader in the same breath.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Simon \u0026amp; Schuster\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/17\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781416540472\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 258\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.38h x 5.60w x 0.67d","brand":"John Bingham, John Le Carre","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39462577635509,"sku":"9781416540472","price":15.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_6f01746e-fa85-4356-93b1-87e74cfa9891.jpg?v=1615920747","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/my-name-is-michael-sibley-9781416540472","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}