{"product_id":"the-heirs-of-babylon-by-glen-cook-9781597809627","title":"The Heirs of Babylon","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe dystopian politics of \u003ci\u003e1984\u003c\/i\u003e meet the naval warship backdrop of \u003ci\u003eThe Last Ship\u003c\/i\u003e in fantasy master Glen Cook's reissued first novel, available for the first time in decades.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt is 2193, and still the war continues.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTwo hundred years after nuclear and chemical weapons have nearly annihilated the global population, the last of mankind struggles on in isolated communities. Law and order is carried out by the Political Office, black-clad police who rule through fear and violence, commanding the world's survivors how to think, how to act, and when to obey the call to the Gathering: the ritual massing for war against an unknown and unseen Enemy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNow the call has come, and all nations must pay tribute.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eKurt Ranke is a young man eking out an existence in the ruins of former Germany with his pregnant wife. But when the Gathering is called, he boards the decrepit destroyer Jger, a once-mighty warship now more than two centuries old. Antiquated, broken-down, and running on steam, it wallows through uncharted waters carrying Ranke and a reluctant and ragtag group of soldiers en route to the Final Meeting: a battle from which it's rumored none have ever returned.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNight Shade Books is proud to reissue, for the first time and now with a brand-new foreword from the author, \u003ci\u003eThe Heirs of Babylon\u003c\/i\u003e, Glen Cook's long-unavailable debut novel, a dark blend of post-apocalyptic naval warfare, Orwellian political intrigue, and the intimate, war-correspondent prose the author is known for.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46991847227628,"sku":"9781597809627","price":29.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/24459033482756.jpg?v=1763072489","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/the-heirs-of-babylon-by-glen-cook-9781597809627","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}