{"title":"Tom Lutz","description":"\u003cp\u003eTom Lutz crafts narratives that delve into the complexities of human behaviour, blending elements of suspense and psychological depth. His works, such as \u003cem\u003eAimlessness\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eStill Slippy\u003c\/em\u003e, invite readers into unsettling worlds where crime and personal turmoil intersect.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eExpect stories rich in atmosphere and tension, where characters grapple with moral ambiguity and unforeseen consequences. Lutz’s writing offers a thought-provoking journey through the darker facets of life, appealing to fans of Crime \u0026amp; Thriller fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"aimlessness-by-tom-lutz-9780231199353","title":"Aimlessness","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOur culture values striving, purpose, achievement, and accumulation. This book asks us to get sidetracked along the way. It praises aimlessness as a source of creativity and an alternative to the demand for linear, efficient, instrumentalist thinking and productivity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAimlessness\u003c\/em\u003e collects ideas and stories from around the world that value indirection, wandering, getting lost, waiting, meandering, lingering, sitting, laying about, daydreaming, and other ways to be open to possibility, chaos, and multiplicity. Tom Lutz considers aimlessness as a fundamental human proclivity and method, one that has been vilified by modern industrial societies but celebrated by many religious traditions, philosophers, writers, and artists.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHe roams a circular path that snakes and forks down sideroads, traipsing through modernist art, nomadic life, slacker comedies, drugs, travel, nirvana, and oblivion. The book is structured as a recursive, disjunctive spiral of short sections, a collage of narrative, anecdotal, analytic, and lyrical passages—intended to be read aimlessly, to wind up someplace unexpected.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47429724831980,"sku":"9780231199353","price":37.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780231199353.jpg?v=1774559989"},{"product_id":"still-slippy-by-tom-lutz-9781636284279","title":"Still Slippy","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA Spanish woman trying to retire as an assassin, a French Foreign Legion deserter from Madagascar, a mysterious (perhaps CIA) woman from America, a billionaire military contractor, and a man wandering the seas alone on a sailing ship bump into each other in the Indian Ocean, and not all of them survive.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eStill Slippy\u003c\/i\u003e tells the tale of Mónica, who has had enough of her life as a contract killer when she meets lonely wanderer Frank Baltimore in a stupidly expensive resort in Madagascar. A few hundred miles away, Alain has had more than enough of his solitary post on a tiny island in the middle of the Indian Ocean. So, when the mysterious Skye offers him a job, he says yes—despite not knowing if she is CIA, Wagner, Darkwater, or a gangster, but he wants in.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSkye takes him to Diego Garcia, the top-secret US military base in the middle of the Indian Ocean, for training. Things turn ugly and deadly when a man from Frank's past turns up trying to break into the lucrative, secretive, already crowded world of paramilitary contractors. He, Mónica, Alain, and Skye end up on his bad side and turn to each other for help.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47464229961964,"sku":"9781636284279","price":39.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781636284279-still-slippy.jpg?v=1775043870"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/tom-lutz.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}