{"product_id":"gridlock-9780552773560","title":"Gridlock","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eGridlock is when a city dies. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKilled in the name of freedom. Killed in the name of oil and steel. Choked on carbon monoxide and strangled with a pair of fluffy dice. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHow did it come to this? How did the ultimate freedom machine end up paralysing us all? How did we end up driving to our own funeral, in somebody else''s gravy train?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDeborah and Geoffrey know, but they have transport problems of their own, and anyway, whoever it was that murdered the city can just as easily murder them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eImportant, topical and politically resonant * Guardian *\u003cbr\u003eCombines passionate espousal of a cause with the machine-gun narration of a stand-up comic, peppered with good jokes and with the energetically managed, funny and violent action of a manic strip cartoon * Evening Standard *\u003cbr\u003eThe book is stuffed with funny lines and the lot is more gripping than any tyre advertisement * New Scientist *","brand":"Transworld Publishers Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48735276007767,"sku":"9780552773560","price":10.44,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780552773560.jpg?v=1723810111","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/gridlock-9780552773560","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}