{"product_id":"no-mans-land-9781916797802","title":"No Man's Land","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBoston, March 1990\u003c\/b\u003e During the St Patrick's Day revelries, thirteen priceless works of art - a Vermeer, Rembrandts, a Manet - are stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. With no leads for the police to follow, it seems as though they've all but evaporated into a bleak New England night...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn the South Fork of Long Island - one hundred and fifty miles away - Jake Dealer is amongst the last of a three-hundred-year tradition of America's seafaring history. A fisherman born with an innate ability to read the Atlantic's unforgiving waters, from which he ekes out a living; his horizons defined only by his family and the ocean.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA plot put into motion in Boston - where money and power hold different meanings - will change the course of his life. And when, in the wake of a devastating tragedy, Jake is unwittingly ensnared in the greatest unsolved art theft in history, he's left fighting to cling on to the only certainties he has ever known.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA white-knuckle thriller and a haunting portrait of a disappearing American frontier, \u003ci\u003eNo Man's Land\u003c\/i\u003e weaves together themes of survival, redemption and the brutal price of silence. Simon Gaul charts new territory in the American literary seascape, creating an indelible portrait of both a vanishing way of life and the depths of human resilience. Just how far will someone go to protect what matters most?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGaul, Simon:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSimon Gaul\u003c\/b\u003e, a businessman, writer and peripatetic traveller, has written numerous travel books, as well as the well-loved children's book \u003ci\u003ePushkin the Polar Bear\u003c\/i\u003e. He has sailed nearly every ocean, driven from London to Beijing in 1990 before the USSR collapsed, and reported on that 55-day expedition for the \u003ci\u003eSunday Correspondent\u003c\/i\u003e and Capital Radio. He has also been a freelance journalist for titles such as the \u003ci\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eIndependent\u003c\/i\u003e. Simon previously lived in London, where he owned The Travel Bookshop (of cinematic fame) in Notting Hill. Now, when not on the road, he calls the Bernese Oberland home.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Whitefox Publishing Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51384380358930,"sku":"9781916797802","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_89f74014-612d-468b-a797-85a71bef2960.jpg?v=1750172747","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/no-mans-land-9781916797802","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}