{"product_id":"books-ripe-by-hider-j","title":"Ripe","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e2023 San Francisco Book Festival WINER - Science Fiction\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEveryone remembers exactly where they were, the day the ships came.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat no one knew back then, though, was that there were people who were already expecting them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eScottish psychologist Elspeth McGann thinks her patient Lester Rains-a suave, enigmatic man who claims to be have been alive for 2,000 years and to be part of a team of extraterrestrial 'farmers' waiting on Earth for an alien harvest-is a delusional schizophrenic. But when vast ships suddenly appear over Moscow and vacuum up 50,000 people in a matter of hours, she realizes she must track down the elusive Rains. In her search, she stumbles upon a group who are already trying to track down the farmers. This band of renegades is led by Cassius C. Trenton, a former NSA analyst who has been on the run since he broke the code on a mystery transmission beamed into space from Earth years ago, and which bore a single, chilling message: Ripe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith the aliens set to return, and some world leaders complicit in their plans, Elspeth and Trenton must seek out Rains and find a way of escaping the impending apocalypse, a hunt that takes them from Edinburgh to the White House, only to discover the harvest is just the beginning.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53504787808529,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781685131999.jpg?v=1778086156","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/books-ripe-by-hider-j","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}