{"product_id":"2026100009988-secondhand-the-wild-abyss","title":"The Wild Abyss","description":"\u003cp\u003eEdition: 1st ed.,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage\u003cbr\u003ePages: Tanning and foxing\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA pistol on the title page signals the mood: cool, dangerous, and unrelenting. The Wild Abyss by John Gunn is a taut British crime thriller that plunges its characters — and its reader — into a shadowy underworld where morality dissolves and survival demands ruthlessness. Set against a backdrop of post-war urban tension, the novel chronicles a web of deception, violence, and desperate men whose choices push them to the very edge of ruin.\n\nPublished by the venerable Robert Hale \u0026amp; Company — a London imprint long associated with quality British crime and adventure fiction — this novel bears the hallmarks of the mid-twentieth-century thriller: lean, muscular prose, a plot that never relents, and an atmosphere thick with menace. Gunn constructs his narrative with the precision of a craftsman, drawing readers into a world where every alliance is fragile and every motive suspect. The Wild Abyss is a reminder that the most treacherous abysses are not geographical — they are human.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49161015099611,"sku":"2026100009988-SECONDHAND","price":30.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/69868d09-8f8c-4edd-9b39-b70ad80e4d99.png?v=1787189059","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100009988-secondhand-the-wild-abyss","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}