{"product_id":"the-wrong-people-valancourt-20th-century-classics-9781948405263","title":"The Wrong People (Valancourt 20th Century Classics)","description":"\u003cp\u003eSet against the seedy backdrop of 1960s Tangier, \u003cem\u003eThe Wrong People\u003c\/em\u003e (1967) is the story of Arnold Turner, a repressed English schoolmaster on holiday in Morocco, where he meets Ewing Baird, a wealthy American expat with a dark secret. Ewing lavishly entertains him and even provides him with a young lover, but as Arnold becomes more and more involved with Ewing he realizes only too late that he has been lured into a dangerous trap - and his only chance of escape is by helping Ewing to carry out a sinister plan.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing in part on the author's real-life efforts to expose the African sex trafficking trade, Robin Maugham's first explicitly gay-themed novel was both a critical and a commercial success, being reprinted several times - including in the important \u003cem\u003eGay Modern Classics\u003c\/em\u003e series - and was optioned for a film version by Sal Mineo (\u003cem\u003eRebel Without a Cause\u003c\/em\u003e). This edition includes a new foreword by Maugham's longtime partner William Lawrence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'I can only think of a handful of novelists who can play the reader like a hooked fish with comparable ingenuity and suppleness.' - Francis King, \u003cem\u003eSunday Telegraph\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'A very well-told story, every move nicely calculated and undeniably shuddery.' - \u003cem\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'A gripping thriller. Storytelling at its best.' - \u003cem\u003eSunday Express\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Valancourt Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50507150754066,"sku":"9781948405263","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_b794e483-ac8f-4913-813b-6cd2c202b95f.jpg?v=1730857748","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-wrong-people-valancourt-20th-century-classics-9781948405263","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}