{"product_id":"herbert-brewers-dirty-little-secret-9780995520707","title":"Herbert Brewer's Dirty Little Secret","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHerbert Brewer's Dirty Little Secret \u003c\/strong\u003eis the first in a series of savagely funny, social-adventure novels calculated to appeal to the readership that has made Douglas Adams, John Kennedy Toole, Terry Pratchett and Tim Dorsey so successful.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen the fictional nation of Amsarnie becomes reluctantly involved in the politics of a foreign war, Prime Minister Dereck Cartright is appalled to discover that his country's armed forces only really exist as an expenditure statistic.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnder extreme pressure, Dereck conceives a plan to create an army by drafting young men from areas of low, electoral participation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eClaust is a notoriously tough, industrial, desert town with the worst record of political apathy in the country. Claust matriarch, eighty-three-year-old Jenny Won Baker operates the town's premier brothel with a passionate, maternal energy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEncouraged by the leading citizens, Jenny engineers bizarre scheme to confuse the draft that transports the whole country to the very brink of civil war.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBraithwaite, Spade:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - In 1966, I was born at home in Oxford, England. My family seemed respectable enough, to the casual eye. Upon escaping school, I travelled the world in every direction, working in every, appalling industry. So far, I have lived as an an illegal immigrant on three different continents, acquiring all the experience to write genuinely sordid stories of mischief and debauchery observed through a panorama of differing cultural perspectives. Somewhere along the line I managed to get, Cogito ergo sum, tattooed on my penis. To date, I've only had cause to regret the stupid things that I haven't done.","brand":"Adrian Braithwaite","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50874304594194,"sku":"9780995520707","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_040892f3-69a6-409d-b64e-24b860f28e98.jpg?v=1737989337","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/herbert-brewers-dirty-little-secret-9780995520707","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}