{"product_id":"the-contractor-9781760552220","title":"The Contractor","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"...these are stories crying out to be turned into a gritty television drama - think a true story version of \u003ci\u003eThe Night Manager\u003c\/i\u003e.\" \u003ci\u003eSydney Morning Herald\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e'I fix things. I can build you a house or remodel your bathroom. I can also make bad situations - and bad people - disappear.'\u003c\/i\u003eMeet Mike. Runs a building site, drives a ute, likes a beer, loves his nail-gun.But Mike is hiding in plain sight. When the Pentagon call him in as 'Big Unit', he's another kind of contractor - one as handy with a Colt M4 as he is with a Skilsaw, a man as accustomed to danger, death, and pain as he is to a hammer and nails.In six action-packed true stories we follow a man who left foreign intelligence for a life 'on the tools', only to discover there's too many dangerous scenarios and terrible people still out there. The good guys need a James Bond in Blundstones. They need The Contractor.\u003cb\u003eTradie. Spy. Big Unit.\u003c\/b\u003eFollow Big Unit as he goes undercover to save a family trapped by an ISIS-run drug cartel in the seedy back streets of Northern Pakistan to terrorist-besieged Paris to a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with Australia's most wanted murderer.SHORTLISTED FOR THE NED KELLY AWARD FOR BEST TRUE CRIME 2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e MacMillan Australia\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/25\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781760552220\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 368\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.15lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.10d","brand":"Mark Abernethy","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53023946473653,"sku":"9781760552220","price":13.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/9781760552220.jpg?v=1787667031","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-contractor-9781760552220","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}