{"product_id":"violent-century-book-lavie-tidhar-9781444762891","title":"The Violent Century","description":"'An alternative history tour-de-force. Epic, intense and authentic . . . electric' - Tom Harper, author of Zodiac Station  For seventy years they guarded the British Empire. Oblivion and Fogg, inseparable friends, bound together by a shared fate. Until one night in Berlin, in the aftermath of the Second World War, and a secret that tore them apart.  But there must always be an account . . . and the past has a habit of catching up to the present.  Now, recalled to the Retirement Bureau from which no one can retire, Fogg and Oblivion must face up to a past of terrible war and unacknowledged heroism - a life of dusty corridors and secret rooms, of furtive meetings and blood-stained fields - to answer one last, impossible question:  What makes a hero?  *******************  Praise for VIOLENT CENTURY:  'Vintage Lavie, and also I think his most fully accomplished novel yet. If Nietzche had written an X-Men storyline whilst high on mescaline, it might have read something like VIOLENT CENTURY' - Adam Roberts, author of Jack Glass  'A big, ambitious book that manages to deliver' - Glen Mehn  'An elegiac espionage adventure that demands a second reading' - Metro  'Provides an insight into what it takes to be human, and what can happen when we lay that humanity aside. It's a powerful novel, which will no doubt reward rereading' - Sci-Fi bulletin","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49564109537553,"sku":"GOR005693209","price":12.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1444762893.jpg?v=1751178799","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/fr-fr\/products\/violent-century-livre-lavie-tidhar-9781444762891","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}