{"product_id":"the-player-of-games-by-iain-m-banks-9780316005401","title":"The Player of Games","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Culture - a human\/machine symbiotic society - has produced many great Game Players, and one of the greatest is Gurgeh. Jernau Morat Gurgeh. \u003cem\u003eThe Player of Games\u003c\/em\u003e. Master of every board, computer, and strategy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBored with success, Gurgeh travels to the Empire of Azad, cruel and incredibly wealthy, to try their fabulous game... a game so complex, so like life itself, that the winner becomes emperor. Mocked, blackmailed, almost murdered, Gurgeh accepts the game, and with it the challenge of his life - and very possibly his death.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePraise for Iain M. Banks:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“Poetic, humorous, baffling, terrifying, sexy -- the books of Iain M. Banks are all these things and more”\u003c\/em\u003e -- NME\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“An exquisitely riotous tour de force of the imagination which writes its own rules simply for the pleasure of breaking them.”\u003c\/em\u003e -- Time Out\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47398056952044,"sku":"9780316005401","price":53.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/13537013482300.jpg?v=1773739177","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/the-player-of-games-by-iain-m-banks-9780316005401","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}