{"product_id":"9780008139117","title":"Authority : Book 2","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Jeff VanderMeer\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eModern \u0026amp; contemporary fiction (post c 1945)\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 30 July 2015 by HarperCollins Publishers (Fourth Estate Ltd) in the United Kingdom as part of 'The Southern Reach Trilogy' series.\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003ch4\u003ePaperback | 352 pages\u003cbr\u003e131 x 197 x 27mm | 320g\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Astonishing, frightening, spectacular’\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNEW STATESMAN\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  ‘A lasting monument to the uncanny’\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGUARDIAN\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  ‘Chilling’\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  With an introduction by N. K. Jemisin\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  After thirty years, the secret government agency known as the Southern Reach has been unable to solve the mysteries of Area X, a seemingly malevolent landscape wiped clean of human civilisation. Or is “pristine wilderness” a better description? Expedition after expedition has failed to come up with answers, often disastrously. The Southern Reach, in the process, has become a backwater agency, forgotten and underfunded despite the urgency of its mission. Following the tumultuous twelfth expedition chronicled in Annihilation, the agency is in complete disarray.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Enter John Rodriguez (aka “Control”), the Southern Reach’s newly appointed director. Working with a distrustful team desperate for success, Control must navigate a maze of frustrating interrogations, a cache of hidden notes, and hours of profoundly troubling video footage. What does it all mean? Can he reach some kind of understanding before it’s too late?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e In Authority, the second volume of Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach Trilogy, many of Area X’s most disturbing questions are answered … but the answers are far from reassuring.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 'Very, very scary!'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e WIRED\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  'Extraordinary'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e SLATE\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  'Successfully creepy'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e WASHINGTON POST\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jeff VanderMeer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64837546049885,"sku":"9780008139117","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1074\/9358\/9341\/files\/9780008139117.jpg?v=1780052522","url":"https:\/\/adventureintobooks.co.uk\/products\/9780008139117","provider":"Adventure Into Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}