{"product_id":"everybody-wants-to-rule-the-world-by-ace-atkins-9781472159267","title":"Everybody Wants to Rule the World","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIt's 1985, what will soon become known as \"The Year of the Spy,\" and fourteen-year-old Peter Bennett is convinced his mom's new boyfriend is a Russian agent.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Gary\" isn't in the phone book, has an unidentifiable European accent, and keeps a gun in the glove box of his convertible Porsche. Peter thinks Gary only wants to get close to his mom because she works at Scientific Atlanta, a lab with big government contracts. But who is going to believe him? He's just a kid into BMX and MTV.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBut after another woman who works at the lab is killed, Peter recruits an unlikely pair of allies—a has-been pulp writer and muckraker named Dennis Hotchner and his drag performer buddy and heavy, Jackie Demure. Both soon become the target of an unhinged Russian hitman (\u003ci\u003eis it Gary? Maybe!\u003c\/i\u003e) with a serious Phil Collins obsession.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMeanwhile, Sylvia Weaver, a young, Black FBI agent, investigates Scientific Atlanta in the wake of the employee's murder and discovers a nest of Russian spies in the Southern \"city too busy to hate.\" Little does she know her investigation is being thwarted by a seriously compromised colleague in Washington, D.C., who is in league with a lovesick, hypochondriac KGB defector who is playing both sides of the Cold War to his benefit.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs Ronald Reagan and Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev prepare for a historic nuclear summit in Geneva, what happens in Atlanta might change the course of the Cold War, the 20th Century, and Peter Bennett's freshman year of high school.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eEverybody Wants to Rule the World\u003c\/i\u003e by Ace Atkins takes readers on a thrilling journey through espionage, intrigue, and the quirks of adolescence in a world where global stakes are incredibly high.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47072504414444,"sku":"9781472159267","price":37.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/2a2068800004efe57faedcb1246c8e1c.jpg?v=1765138456","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/products\/everybody-wants-to-rule-the-world-by-ace-atkins-9781472159267","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}