{"product_id":"family-arsenal-p-b","title":"Paul Theroux: The Family Arsenal [2010] paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Family Arsenal \u003c\/i\u003eis a darkly comic novel of warped morals and disillusionment in South London by the award-winning writer Paul Theroux. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn South London terrorists plot. . . \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHood, a renegade American diplomat, envisions a new urban order in the opium for of his room. He flirts with terrorists, hoping to win their trust and respect. Mayo, his sometime bedmate, has just made a political statement - stealing a Flemish painting and negotiating publicity over this act with \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e. Murf the bomb-maker leaves his mark in red, scrawling 'Arsenal Rule' across half the city's walls, whilst his sixteen-year-old girlfriend, Brodie, bombs Euston and afterwards worries about her complexion.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA novel of London lowlife and the dispossessed, and a powerful and violent thriller of disenchanted people.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A pleasure. . . with Theroux the thrills are never cheap and obvious' \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'One of the most evocative, intelligently crafted suspense novels in years - like the early fiction of Graham Greene. . . London has rarely looked dingier or more sinister...an assured success' \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Brilliant and haunting. . . the ingenious of the plot, the London setting. . . the trapped and interwoven people, and the balefully witty observation, have an undistracted force' \u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAmerican travel writer Paul Theroux is known for the rich descriptions of people and places that is often streaked with his distinctive sense of irony; his novels and collected short stories, \u003ci\u003eMy Other Life\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Collected Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMy Secret History\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Lower River\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Stranger at the Palazzo d'Oro\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eA Dead Hand\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMillroy the Magician\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Elephanta Suite\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e Saint Jack\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Consul's File\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Mosquito Coast\u003c\/i\u003e, and his works of non-fiction, including the iconic \u003ci\u003eThe Great Railway Bazaar\u003c\/i\u003e are available from Penguin.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Theroux, Paul","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":44665212633378,"sku":"9780141049861","price":1.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/theroux-paul-paul-theroux-the-family-arsenal-2010-paperback-9780141049861-58413862453587.jpg?v=1727947928","url":"https:\/\/chaptersbookstore.pro\/products\/family-arsenal-p-b","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}