{"product_id":"high-john-the-conqueror-paperback","title":"High John the Conqueror - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eTariq Goddard\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhen children start going missing in a rural town, the investigation takes twists and turns into the strange world of privilege and the realm of the occult.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"I always wanted to be a writer, but I became a policeman instead.\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eWESSEX, 2016.\u003c\/b\u003e Teenagers are vanishing off the council estates of a small provincial city. A crop of herbs that are said to posses magical powers which only grow once every fifty years are found in the woods. A supernatural creature believed to be the guardian of the herbs is seen in nightmares. Rumours of orgiastic rituals on the estates of the rich and powerful excite the curious. And the Queen of England decides to celebrate her 90th birthday with a visit to the city's famous cathedral spire. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eInto this madness, two ambitious detectives, one with doomed literary ambitions, seek to solve the mystery, their only lead that \"posh people are taking our children\". \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBlending mysticism, class war, societal malfeasance and transcendence, \u003ci\u003eHigh John The Conqueror\u003c\/i\u003e identifies the point in our recent history when the ghosts of our past become the political monsters of the present.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTariq Goddard\u003c\/b\u003e was born in London in 1975. His first three novels were short listed for various awards including Whitbread (Costa) First Novel Award, Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize and the Commonwealth Writer's Prize. His fourth and fifth books won the Independent Publishers Gold medal for Horror Writing and Silver medal for Literary Fiction respectively. He lives on a farm in Wiltshire with his wife and children and is the Publisher of Repeater Books.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 328\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 8.43 x 5.28 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 08, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47253005402361,"sku":"9781914420306","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/OXdvc3hXSzdtTWdlKzk4NDhsSTFGUT09.webp?v=1768694062","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/high-john-the-conqueror-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}