{"product_id":"the-chameleons-shadow-9780307264633","title":"The Chameleon's Shadow","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen British lieutenant Charles Acland returns home from Iraq  his serious head injuries are the outward manifestation of a profound inner change: he may be suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder  or it may be  as his psychiatrist suggests  the prolonged destruction of a personality.  Though previously well adjusted and known as an extrovert  Acland now withdraws into himself. As he begins his recovery in a dismal provincial hospital  crippled by migraines and suspicious of his doctors  he grows uncharacteristically aggressiveparticularly against women  and most particularly against his ex-fiance. Finally  rejecting medical advice to undergo cosmetic surgeryopting  instead  to accept his disfigurementand cutting all ties to his former life  he moves to London. There  alone and unmonitored  he sinks into a quagmire of guilt and paranoiauntil an outburst of irrational  vicious anger brings him to the attention of the local police: they are investigating three recent murders  all of them apparently motivated by the kind of extreme rage that Acland has exhibited.  Now under suspicion  Acland is forced to confront the issues behind his desperate existence before its too late: Has he always been the duplicitous chameleon that his ex-fiance accuses him of being? Can he control this newly apparent sinister side of his personality? And why  if he truly hates women  does he in the end seek help from a womansomeone as straightforward and self-disciplined as he is unsure and seemingly out of controlto repair the damage to his mind?  In its timeliness  its psychological complexity  and its unstoppable suspense  The Chameleons Shadow is a thriller of the first order.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45816287395893,"sku":"ByrdShop_0307264637","price":26.97,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780307264633.jpg?v=1785181647","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-chameleons-shadow-9780307264633","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}