{"product_id":"2026100009790-secondhand-like-men-betrayed","title":"Like Men Betrayed","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Wear and tear with damage\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003cbr\u003eMarkings: Previous owner\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA simmering portrait of ambition, loyalty, and moral collapse, Like Men Betrayed is a taut and psychologically charged novel set against the backdrop of post-war British society, where one man's desperate choices unravel the lives of everyone around him. Frederic Raphael chronicles the story of a father whose financial and ethical compromises drag his son into a world of corruption, forcing a brutal reckoning between generations that exposes the hollow promises at the heart of respectability and success.\n\nRaphael, best known for his Oscar-winning screenplay for Darling and his incisive Cambridge novels, writes with a razor-sharp wit and an unflinching eye for social hypocrisy, crafting characters whose veneer of civility barely conceals their capacity for betrayal. The novel stands as a sharp indictment of a class system that rewards complicity and punishes integrity, leaving the reader to question just how much any man truly owes to those who shaped him — and at what cost loyalty is finally abandoned.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49203286081755,"sku":"2026100009790-SECONDHAND","price":20.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/af60cb75-2c07-459c-8d08-d34fc25c9d8d.png?v=1788147574","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100009790-secondhand-like-men-betrayed","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}