{"product_id":"2026100012368-secondhand-the-lantern-network","title":"The Lantern Network","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket\u003cbr\u003ePages: Yellowed\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the shadowy world where loyalty is a currency and betrayal is the only certainty, Ted Allbeury's The Lantern Network pulls readers into the treacherous underworld of post-war espionage. The novel follows a British intelligence operative tasked with unravelling a clandestine resistance network in occupied France, a mission that forces him to confront not only the enemy, but the ghosts of a war that refuses to stay buried. Allbeury draws on his own wartime experience in British Intelligence to craft a narrative of rare authenticity, immersing the reader in a world of dead drops, double agents, and desperate courage.\n\nAllbeury, hailed by Len Deighton as truly a classic writer of espionage fiction, brings to his work a moral complexity that elevates it far beyond the conventions of the genre. The Lantern Network is less a thriller about action than it is a meditation on sacrifice, identity, and the crushing weight of secrets carried across decades. His prose is precise and unadorned, yet charged with an emotional undercurrent that lingers long after the final page — leaving the reader to wonder how many lanterns still burn in the dark.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51022655946971,"sku":"2026100012368-SECONDHAND","price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/36188863-92c8-44d9-85a9-a3bdb208aad6.png?v=1793665420","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100012368-secondhand-the-lantern-network","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}