{"product_id":"books-carl-faberge-by-a-kenneth-snowman","title":"Carl Faberge","description":"\u003cb\u003eIn this wild, stylish, wickedly funny debut, Shilo Jones charts the journey of three players caught in a high-stakes property development--a dangerous and depraved game that plays out behind the veneer of everyday city life.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJasminder is determined. Carl is blitzed. Mark is righteous. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eUnfortunately, they've pitted themselves against one another and they're throwing everything they have at the same condo development in North Vancouver. The Solstice deal promises what they want most for themselves--freedom, respect, status, wealth--and it is their chance to be truly on the up.\u003cbr\u003e Over the course of a week, the trio vie for their piece. But there are complex personal obstacles standing in the way for each. Jasminder Bansal, an aspiring journalist with a powerful ambition and a family connection to gangland violence, is playing a dangerous game to get the information she needs from a slick property lawyer with links to an international criminal boss. Carl Blitzo Reed, co-founder of an ecological investment firm, has a wildly distorted sense of reality and a morally questionable connection to the property. Mark Ward, a veteran of the Afghanistan War with a strong conscience, is barely coping with the effects of PTSD, but he's forced to call on the skills he has learned as a soldier in order to repay a debt to his criminal brother, Clint. Jasminder, Blitzo, and Mark use anything at their disposal to pursue their goals, and no one is left untouched: speculators, government officials, realtors, activists, builders, day-labourers, investors, lawyers--not even a potbellied pig.\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eOn the Up\u0026gt;\u003c\/i\u003eintroduces Shilo Jones as a writer with a singular voice. Here he gives us a raucous, biting satire, packed with bleak humour, outrageous characters, and pathos, that shows us what can happen when greed, desperation, will, loyalty, and an insatiable desire for status collide.","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53671329497361,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780517405024.jpg?v=1781515763","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/books-carl-faberge-by-a-kenneth-snowman","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}