{"product_id":"9780857302816","title":"Plender","description":"\u003cp\u003e'Ted Lewis is one of England's finest, but still most neglected post-war writers'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwo men share a common history. Growing up together in the small town of Barton-Upon-Humber in Lincolnshire, England, Peter Knott is everything that Brian Plender wishes he were. Knott is suave, good-looking, an exemplary student and popular. The friendship they maintain is as important to Plender as it is forgettable to Knott, and eventually leads to a lasting humiliation for Brian.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYears later Brian Plender is a dangerous man; a private investigator who specializes in extortion, blackmail, and intimidation. Knott meanwhile is a family man adrift, beholden to his wife for money.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen, at a bar he uses to set up marks, Plender spots Knott with a girl way too young to be his wife he decides to follow the pair and see what happens. What follows is an edge-of-your-seat trip into a nightmare story that manages to be both incredibly creepy and eerily profound.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ted Lewis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47976474443925,"sku":"9780857302816","price":23.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/harpercollins.com.au\/products\/9780857302816","provider":"HarperCollins AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}