{"product_id":"the-expats-a-novel","title":"The Expats: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe international thriller that Patricia Cornwell says is bristling with suspense about an American abroad who finds herself in complex web of intrigue.  Can We Ever Escape Our Secrets?  Kate Moore is a working mother  struggling to make ends meet  to raise children  to keep a spark in her marriage . . . and to maintain an increasingly unbearable life-defining secret. So when her husband is offered a lucrative job in Luxembourg  she jumps at the chance to leave behind her double-life  to start anew. She begins to reinvent herself as an expat  finding her way in a language she doesnt speak  doing the housewifely things shes never before doneplaydates and coffee mornings  daily cooking and never-ending laundry. Meanwhile  her husband works incessantly  at a job Kate has never understood  for a banking client shes not allowed to know. Hes becoming distant and evasive; shes getting lonely and bored. Then another American couple arrives. Kate soon becomes suspicious that these people are not who they say they are  and shes terrified that her own past is catching up to her. So Kate begins to dig  to peel back the layers of deception that surround her. She discovers fake offices and shell corporations and a hidden gun  a mysterious farmhouse and numbered accounts with bewildering sums of money  and finally unravels the mind-boggling long-play con that threatens her family  her marriage  and her life. Stylish and sophisticated  fiercely intelligent and expertly crafted  The Expats proves Chris Pavone to be a writer of tremendous talent.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44983971250229,"sku":"ByrdShop_0307956350","price":27.37,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780307956354.jpg?v=1770816816","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-expats-a-novel","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}