{"product_id":"the-human-pool","title":"The Human Pool","description":"An epic and hauntingly topical geopolitical thriller spanning six decades and three continents, The Human Pool confirms the journalist and award-winning filmmaker Chris Petit as the heir to John le Carré and Robert Harris.\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTHE HUMAN POOL\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\nRumors about Willi Schmidt's actions during the Second World War were enigmatic, to say the least. He worked for U.S. Intelligence out of Switzerland; he cut black-market deals on the side; he rescued scores of Jews from the Nazis. Saint or sinner? Either way, Schmidt was strictly murky waters -- and reports of his death in 1945 surprised no one.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\nSixty years later, Joe Hoover is convinced Schmidt is still alive, armed with a false name and a fortune in pharmaceuticals. For years, Hoover, former Intelligence courier for the American spymaster Allen Dulles, has been haunted by misgivings about his own wartime role in his boss's top-secret financial partnership with the Third Reich. Now, someone wants Hoover dead.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\nBack in Europe, Hoover discovers that operations he thought had ended long ago are still being played out. Forming an uneasy alliance with Vaughan, an undercover journalist investigating neo-Nazi traffic of Kurdish refugees, he begins to unravel a conspiracy that leads deep into his past, to his days mixing with Nazi officers in the supposedly neutral cities of Zurich, Istanbul, and Budapest, where enemies did deals over cocktails.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\nAt each step, Hoover finds the shadow of Willi Schmidt and the specter of World War II's most grotesque and enduring legacy -- a trade in people: the human pool.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\nSet against a vivid historical backdrop, \u003ci\u003eThe Human Pool\u003c\/i\u003e mixes fiction and fact to explosive effect. Chris Petit has crafted his finest novel yet -- a cosmopolitan, thinking-person's thriller that turns the world inside out and traces its veins: It spells nothing less than the rebirth of the great espionage novel.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67628904186223,"sku":"9781416575030","price":148.35,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0921\/9384\/9711\/files\/1416575030.jpg?v=1790782796","url":"https:\/\/internacional.umlivro.com.br\/products\/the-human-pool","provider":"UmLivro Internacional","version":"1.0","type":"link"}