{"product_id":"incident-book-kenneth-macleod-9781780221045","title":"The Incident","description":"Three lives, three turning points: this stunning debut novel charts those moments that change the course of a life for ever.  'Certainly there are ghosts in these towers. For me they are the ghosts of two children. And even now - ten years later and seven hundred miles away - I still wake most nights with the muffled echo of their cries in my ears and the weight of their deaths on my conscience...'  Three lives; three turning points. Craig was a teenage lifeguard on a beach in Germany when two children died on his watch. It should never have happened. He was an expert swimmer. His grandfather, Gordon McInnes, was on board a ship torpedoed during the war. He survived by clinging to the body of one of his colleagues. Years later, he met a member of the crew of the U-boat that attacked his ship. Gerd is a refugee of the Cold War. Recruited by the Stasi at a very young age, he escaped to the west after his mission went terribly wrong. He never went back.  THE INCIDENT is a searingly powerful novel about fate, about those moments that change the course of a life for ever. It is also a book about history, from the Second World War through to the current day, and the way incidents long past can reverberate across generations.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49857340932369,"sku":"GOR006410791","price":3.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51225327993105,"sku":"GOR005074278","price":3.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1780221045.jpg?v=1750832363","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/incident-book-kenneth-macleod-9781780221045","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}