{"product_id":"acts-of-omission","title":"Acts of Omission","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the Paddy Power Political Novel of the Year\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn 1998 the gilt is starting to come off a new era.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMark Lucas, the recently appointed foreign minister, is in a dilemma. A disk containing the names of British informants to the Stasi has ended up in the hands of the government. Elected on a platform of transparency, he faces resistance from the diplomatic service who don't want him to return it to the Germans, despite their entreaties.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAlex Rutherford, a young man working for the intelligence services, wakes up one morning with a hangover and a dawning realisation that his computer is lost and, with it, the only copy of that disk.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhen the disk is delivered to the newspaper where journalist Anna Travers works, she finds herself unravelling not just a mystery, but many people's lives . . .\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eActs of Omission\u003c\/em\u003e plunges the reader into a virtuoso recreation of late-nineties Britain. Suspenseful, exquisitely constructed and thought-provokingly topical, it is a novel about what happens when state secrets become public, and the human cost of those secrets.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Goldsboro Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47263844040998,"sku":"acts-of-omission","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/goldsborobooks.pro\/products\/acts-of-omission","provider":"Goldsboro Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}