{"product_id":"beneath-the-streets","title":"Beneath the Streets","description":"\u003cp data-palette=\"Paragraph\" data-automation-id=\"dyn-item-short-review-input\" data-wf-id='[\"d891ec09-d22f-2e89-9da4-acfdd97774d4\"]' data-w-id=\"d891ec09-d22f-2e89-9da4-acfdd97774d4\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-palette=\"Strong\" data-automation-id=\"dyn-item-short-review-input\" data-wf-id='[\"3e0355e5-9103-b6a7-de6b-f5dbb043a990\"]' data-w-id=\"3e0355e5-9103-b6a7-de6b-f5dbb043a990\"\u003eWhen Jeremy Thorpe hired thugs to kill his ex-lover, they botched it. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong data-palette=\"Strong\" data-automation-id=\"dyn-item-short-review-input\" data-wf-id='[\"ffc712f4-58bb-32b6-0a89-a9092bf969bf\"]' data-w-id=\"ffc712f4-58bb-32b6-0a89-a9092bf969bf\"\u003eWhat if they had succeeded?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-palette=\"Paragraph\" data-automation-id=\"dyn-item-short-review-input\" data-wf-id='[\"84cf13b9-8d65-3452-db47-dc2c33b327db\"]' data-w-id=\"84cf13b9-8d65-3452-db47-dc2c33b327db\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-palette=\"Strong\" data-automation-id=\"dyn-item-short-review-input\" data-wf-id='[\"c71cefaa-99d7-b856-1c09-68f9ac108006\"]' data-w-id=\"c71cefaa-99d7-b856-1c09-68f9ac108006\"\u003e‘As boldly conceived as it is vividly realised’ John Preston\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-palette=\"Paragraph\" data-automation-id=\"dyn-item-short-review-input\" data-wf-id='[\"84cf13b9-8d65-3452-db47-dc2c33b327db\"]' data-w-id=\"84cf13b9-8d65-3452-db47-dc2c33b327db\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-palette=\"Strong\" data-automation-id=\"dyn-item-short-review-input\" data-wf-id='[\"c71cefaa-99d7-b856-1c09-68f9ac108006\"]' data-w-id=\"c71cefaa-99d7-b856-1c09-68f9ac108006\"\u003eLONGLISTED: Polari Prize\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-palette=\"Paragraph\" data-automation-id=\"dyn-item-short-review-input\" data-wf-id='[\"84cf13b9-8d65-3452-db47-dc2c33b327db\"]' data-w-id=\"84cf13b9-8d65-3452-db47-dc2c33b327db\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is February 1976, and the naked corpse of a shockingly underage rent boy is fished out of a pond on Hampstead Heath. Since the police don’t seem to care, twenty-year-old Tommy Wildeblood – himself a former ‘Dilly boy’ prostitute – finds himself investigating.\u003cbr data-w-id=\"ff2d0b7f-ce95-c406-bc54-528858f2a57b\" data-wf-id='[\"ff2d0b7f-ce95-c406-bc54-528858f2a57b\"]' data-automation-id=\"dyn-item-description-input\"\u003e\u003cbr data-w-id=\"f41bc54f-bff8-7472-5f33-7f5a0776608f\" data-wf-id='[\"f41bc54f-bff8-7472-5f33-7f5a0776608f\"]' data-automation-id=\"dyn-item-description-input\"\u003eDodging murderous Soho hoodlums and the agents of a more sinister power, Tommy uncovers another, even more shocking crime: the Liberal leader and likely next Home Secretary, Jeremy Thorpe, has had his former male lover executed on Exmoor and got clean away with it. Now the trail of guilt seems to lead higher still, and a ruthless Establishment will stop at nothing to cover its tracks.\u003cbr data-w-id=\"e4beddd5-900a-c7e7-4c91-e3bd9716010c\" data-wf-id='[\"e4beddd5-900a-c7e7-4c91-e3bd9716010c\"]' data-automation-id=\"dyn-item-description-input\"\u003e\u003cbr data-w-id=\"1846d689-3114-4d8a-d836-790d78429c9a\" data-wf-id='[\"1846d689-3114-4d8a-d836-790d78429c9a\"]' data-automation-id=\"dyn-item-description-input\"\u003eIn a gripping thriller whose cast of real-life characters includes Prime Minister Harold Wilson, his senior adviser Lady Falkender, gay Labour peer Tom Driberg and the investigative journalist Paul Foot, Adam Macqueen plays ‘what if’ with Seventies political history – with a sting in the tail that reminds us that the truth can be just as chilling as fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-palette=\"Paragraph\" data-automation-id=\"dyn-item-quotes-input\" data-wf-id='[\"c5809e8d-774e-7f10-e4e2-1f54465b5a2b\"]' data-w-id=\"c5809e8d-774e-7f10-e4e2-1f54465b5a2b\"\u003e‘A wonderfully evocative walk on the wild side of 1970s London, \u003cem data-palette=\"Emphasized\" data-automation-id=\"dyn-item-quotes-input\" data-wf-id='[\"6eda3434-8950-b467-fc3b-2fb27e875859\"]' data-w-id=\"6eda3434-8950-b467-fc3b-2fb27e875859\"\u003eBeneath the Streets\u003c\/em\u003e is darkly comic and deeply moving. 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