{"product_id":"2026200014209-secondhand-face-me-when-you-walk-away","title":"Face Me When You Walk Away","description":"\u003cp\u003eEdition: First 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: Good\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBehind the glittering façade of Cold War Vienna, where allegiances shift like shadows and every silence carries a price, Brian Freemantle's Face Me When You Walk Away plunges its protagonist into a treacherous world of espionage, moral compromise, and desperate survival. A British defector living in gilded exile finds his carefully constructed peace shattered when a desperate mission drags him back into the machinery of a conflict he thought he had escaped, forcing a reckoning with loyalty, identity, and the cost of turning one's back on the world of shadows.\n\nFreemantle, a master of the taut, psychologically charged spy thriller, crafts a narrative that operates on multiple levels — part Cold War procedural, part intimate character study — written with the lean, precise prose that would later define his celebrated Charlie Muffin series. The novel stands as a compelling early work that illustrates the author's trademark ability to humanise the moral ambiguities of the intelligence world, leaving the reader to wonder whether any escape from the past is ever truly final.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49160996880603,"sku":"2026200014209-SECONDHAND","price":30.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/4d3370de-e715-4a12-8c9d-b0a2581fa767.png?v=1787188709","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200014209-secondhand-face-me-when-you-walk-away","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}