{"product_id":"out-of-shadows-by-jason-wallace","title":"Out of Shadows by Jason Wallace","description":"\u003cp\u003eA compelling, thought-provoking novel about race, bullying and the need to belong, set in Africa.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf I stood you in front of a man, pressed a gun into your palm and told you to squeeze the trigger, would you do it?\u003cbr\u003eNo, Sir, No way!\u003cbr\u003eWhat if I then told you we'd gone back in time and his name was Adolf Hitler?\u003cbr\u003eWould you do it then?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet in Zimbabwe in the 1980s, just after the war for independence, a young English boy, Jacklin, is torn between his black friends at school and his sympathy for the colonial whites after witnessing the compulsory land seizures by Robert Mugabe's government.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut with an imminent visit by Robert Mugabe to the school, Jacklin realizes that Ivan, his white supremacist schoolmate, plans to assassinate the black leader. The novel leaves us with the moral dilemma â in hindsight, should Jacklin have killed Ivan or let Ivan kill Robert Mugabe?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43121601282122,"sku":"5959ag","price":9.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/5959ag.jpg?v=1764995912","url":"https:\/\/www.bookexpress.nz\/products\/out-of-shadows-by-jason-wallace","provider":"Book Express","version":"1.0","type":"link"}