{"product_id":"slaves-of-obsession-9780345514127","title":"Slaves of Obsession","description":"The year is 1861. The American Civil War has just begun, and London arms dealer Daniel Alberton is becoming a very wealthy man. His quiet dinner party seems remote indeed from the passions rending America. Yet investigator William Monk and his bride, Hester, sense growing tensions and barely concealed violence. For two of the guests are Americans, each vying to buy Alberton's armaments. Soon Monk and Hester's forebodings are fulfilled as one member of the party is brutally murdered and two others disappear-- along with Alberton's entire inventory of weapons. As Monk and Hester track the man they believe to be the murderer all the way to Washington, D.C., and the bloody battlefield at Manassas, \u003ci\u003eSlaves of Obsession\u003c\/i\u003e twists and turns like a powder-keg fuse and holds the reader breathless and spellbound.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnne Perry\u003c\/b\u003e was the bestselling author of two acclaimed series set in Victorian England: the William Monk novels and the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt novels. She was also the author of a series featuring Charlotte and Thomas Pitt's son, Daniel, as well as the Elena Standish series; a series of five World War I novels; twenty-one holiday novels; and a historical novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Sheen on the Silk, \u003c\/i\u003e set in the Byzantine Empire. Anne Perry died in 2023.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Ballantine Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50460141191442,"sku":"9780345514127","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_2d713af5-9c35-420e-819f-f6a55434f1be.jpg?v=1730030402","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/slaves-of-obsession-9780345514127","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}