{"product_id":"dead-end-gang","title":"Dead-End Gang","description":"\u003cp\u003e'The Dead-End Gang' is a fast-paced World War II thriller set in Egypt\nand Libya. An audacious gang of deserters have to be stopped before a\ntop-secret weapon they have stolen is sold to the Nazis.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt is November 1941. The Eighth Army is forging west\nto push the Germans back and relieve the besieged port of Tobruk. Captain\nStrickland arrives in Egypt from the Metropolitan Police to bring the gang to\njustice. With his Military Police Sergeant, Osborn, they pursue the gang in\nTobruk, through the souks and fleshpots of Cairo and finally across the\nforbidding Qattara Depression in a frantic race to stop the weapon getting into\nthe hands of an SS Colonel. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis is HD Joslin's first published novel, a fictional\naccount based on the story of his Uncle Frank, then Lieutenant Elliott, who\narrived in Cairo to join the Special Investigation Branch of the Military Police\nto bring down a gang of deserters called the Dead-End Kids.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Conrad Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55695748071768,"sku":"9781917673303","price":17.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781917673303.jpg?v=1778004924","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/dead-end-gang","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}