{"product_id":"the-rhyl-poster","title":"The Rhyl Poster","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA brilliant and troubled jurist becomes a double agent, in the thrilling new novel from twice Booker-shortlisted Tom McCarthy\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBenjamin Stanton is a decorated Gulf War veteran and star jurist in Europe's highest court. But when he meets the enigmatic Pirotti at a conference in the Swiss Alps, his allegiance begins to shift. Introduced by his new handler to pills he calls \u003ci\u003epetits bleus\u003c\/i\u003e, which take away the pain of his war wound, Stanton surrenders to sublime visions in which lurk dark traces of a violent incident back in Iraq.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSoon Stanton finds himself passing out court documents to Pirotti's colleagues - or just passing out. The court starts to detect leaks in security but suspects anyone other than its favoured legal theorist. Indeed, it is Stanton who is asked to draft a new, landmark ruling, more important and far-reaching than anything he has written before.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut Stanton has been working on something else: a vast, sprawling document made up of markings, patterns and encoded revelations that has the power to change the world which he and those around him have so carefully constructed. To destroy it, certainly, but maybe, from that very act of ruination, to usher in a bright new beginning.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Rhyl Poster \u003c\/i\u003ecrafts a hallucinatory landscape where guilt - our own, and our whole era's - is endlessly replayable, but never quite expungeable.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cu\u003ePraise for Tom McCarthy:\u003c\/u\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A Kafka for the Google age' \u003ci\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'The most visionary of contemporary writers' Neel Mukherjee\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Compulsively readable' \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAuthor\u003c\/span\u003e \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=author:Tom+McCarthy\"\u003eTom McCarthy\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tom McCarthy","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67664217178275,"sku":"9781787336582","price":395.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/9781787336582.jpg?v=1792093389","url":"https:\/\/graffitibooks.co.za\/products\/the-rhyl-poster","provider":"Graffiti Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}