{"title":"Lawrence Osborne","description":"Lawrence Osborne is the critically acclaimed and internationally bestselling author of the novels THE FORGIVEN and THE BALLAD OF A SMALL PLAYER, and of six books of nonfiction, including THE WET AND THE DRY. He has written for The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Forbes, Harper's, and several other publications. He currently lives in Bangkok.","products":[{"product_id":"hunters-in-the-dark-paperback","title":"Hunters in the Dark - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the novelist the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e compares to Paul Bowles, Evelyn Waugh and Ian McEwan, an evocative new work of literary suspense\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAdrift in Cambodia and eager to side-step a life of quiet desperation as a small-town teacher, 28-year-old Englishman Robert Grieve decides to go missing. 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