{"product_id":"2026200016097-secondhand-the-racket","title":"The Racket","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat if the entire machinery of modern capitalism were revealed as an elaborate, self-perpetuating con? Anita Mason's The Racket plunges its readers into a sharply observed world where the mechanisms of money, power, and complicity are laid bare with surgical precision, chronicling one individual's unsettling journey through a society built on systemic deceit and moral compromise.\n\nMason, best known for her Booker Prize-shortlisted novel The Illusionist, brings her characteristic intellectual rigour and cool, incisive prose to this provocative work. Her writing argues that the structures we inhabit — economic, political, and social — are far less solid than they appear, and that the line between participant and victim is dangerously thin. The Racket leaves the reader with an uncomfortable question hanging in the air: if everyone is running a racket, what does that make you?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49342780145883,"sku":"2026200016097-SECONDHAND","price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/ba887909-2cee-48e4-8b01-6dc096b594b3.png?v=1790049396","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200016097-secondhand-the-racket","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}