{"product_id":"deacon-brodie-a-double-life-9781512175172","title":"Deacon Brodie: A Double Life","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): David Hutchison\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e When respected Gentleman and City Councillor, Deacon William Brodie, chases his love of gambling, he is drawn deep into a double life. Before long the open respectability of day gives way to a hidden life of crime at night, and soon, Brodie is on a trajectory to disaster - one which leads him to the gibbet.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet in the Edinburgh of 1788, Deacon Brodie: A Double Life is a fact-based novel which shows Brodie's love for gambling and risk sweeping him into a life of crime. Betrayed by an accomplice, and revealed as a \"Gentleman by day, thief by night\", Brodie escapes the city, is captured in Holland, then faced with a trial before a city where once he was a leading citizen.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen he is sentenced to be hanged, his closest friend has a different idea and, in full view of everyone, Brodie takes his riskiest gamble yet . . .\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Createspace Independent Publishing Platform","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45510467190935,"sku":"9781512175172","price":1241.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781512175172.webp?v=1767170707","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/deacon-brodie-a-double-life-9781512175172","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}