{"product_id":"9781842438404","title":"Rare Earth","description":"\u003cp\u003eA washed up TV reporter stumbles onto a corruption scandal in Western China. Pursued through the desert by a psychotic spin-doctor and a world-weary cop, he discovers the real China: illegal metal mines, a fashion-crazed gang of girl bikers, a whole commune of Tiananmen Square survivors and the up-market sleaze-joints of Beijing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEn route, he clashes with a stellar cast of people-traffickers, prostitutes and TV execs. But then the unquiet dead begin to intervene: ghosts from his own past and the past of Chinese Communism; the 'spirits that hover three feet above our heads' of Chinese folklore.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRare Earth is a story about love, journalism, ghosts, metallurgy, vintage militaria and large motorcycles set in the badlands of Inner Mongolia and Ningxia. It is about the west's inability to understand the East; one man's epic journey across a dying landscape, where 'thousands of pairs of eyes peer beyond grimy windowpanes into the moonless sky, looking for something better.'\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Paul Mason","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47976475132053,"sku":"9781842438404","price":32.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/harpercollins.com.au\/products\/9781842438404","provider":"HarperCollins AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}