{"product_id":"9781864489897-secondhand-freedom-highway","title":"Freedom Highway","description":"Thailand in the late 1950s,and Southeast Asia moves inexorably towards the Vietnam War.  In preparation for the war, American, British and Australian agents are moving in.  Businessmen, diplomats, aid personnel - entrepreneurs of all kinds - have come to the seedy streets of Bangkok to ply their trades.  The newspapers are closed down, the military runs the drug-smuggling and the brothels, and the government rules via the televised firing squad.\n\nStephen Brasch, a young American lawyer working for the Rockefeller Foundation, comes to Thailand 'to do good' but discovers that 'good' can be interpreted in many ways - some of them fatal.  When Brasch blows the whistle on a scandalous plot involving Thai government ministers, British and American businessmen and even the most celebrated US Presidential Candidate of modern times, he finds himself face-to-face with a Prime Minister who is renowned for taking a gun out of his office drawer and using it.\n\nFreedom Highway is a new departure for a multi-award winning novelist.  At one level Nigel Krauth has written a pacy, page-turning thriller, on another he tells a chilling account of corruption in high places, and the Western allies' deceit and aggression leading to the twentieth century's most politicised, and least understood, war.","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48810622058715,"sku":"9781864489897-SECONDHAND","price":12.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/8478647b-d36e-4bfd-9fb0-dc4c1dcb7ded.jpg?v=1779806146","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/9781864489897-secondhand-freedom-highway","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}