{"product_id":"9780007309252","title":"Blood-Dark Track : A Family History","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): O'Neill, Joseph \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 30\/04\/2009,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 352 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9780007309252,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA fascinating family memoir from Joseph O'Neill, author of the Man Booker Prize longlisted and Richard \u0026amp; Judy pick, ‘Netherland’.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Joseph O'Neill's grandfathers – one Irish, one Turkish – were both imprisoned during the Second World War. The Irish grandfather, a handsome rogue from a family of small farmers, was an active member of the IRA and was interned with hundreds of his comrades. O'Neill's other grandfather, a hotelier from a tiny and threatened Turkish Christian minority, was imprisoned by the British in Palestine, on suspicion of being a spy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e At the age of thirty, Joseph O'Neill set out to uncover his grandfather's stories, what emerges is a narrative of two families and two charismatic but flawed men – it is a story of murder, espionage, paranoia and fear, of memories of violence and of fierce commitments to political causes.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42045402873900,"sku":"9780007309252","price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9780007309252_199ef663-0ac4-4006-a446-ff4b11cfbb9c.jpg?v=1759667797","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.co.uk\/products\/9780007309252","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}