{"product_id":"9780857428288","title":"Dark Company : A Novel in Ten Rainy Nights","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Of course I had to end up here . . .\" Over  ten rainy nights, Thomas, an ex-bargeman who used to be skipper of his  own boat, walks the muddy fields of the landlocked German interior and  remembers the events that lost him his home, his boat, and his  livelihood: his apprenticeship in the cold halls of the Royal Naval  College in London; the dangers of the mean streets and waterfront of New  York in the 1970s, and Poland under martial law; Germany after the  reunification, when for a year or so it seemed that the whole country  drifted rudderless, drawn by the current of history to who knows where.  In this novel from Gert Loschutz,Thomas remembers childhood, his first  love, and the warnings of his grandfather: Beware the dark company!  This mysterious band of men and women dressed in black cast a shadow  over his story, as he wrestles with the secrets, the unplumbed depths of  his soul, the hazards lurking below a seemingly placid surface, and  throughout it all, the rain, falling night after night. Dark Company is a superb example of a distinctly German tradition in weird fiction which claims its roots in Kafka and Herbert Rosendorfer.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rye Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41186971517080,"sku":"9780857428288","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0064\/1368\/0730\/products\/9780857428288.jpg?v=1635038955","url":"https:\/\/ryebooks.co.uk\/products\/9780857428288","provider":"Rye Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}