{"product_id":"shalimar-the-clown","title":"Shalimar the Clown","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe place is Los Angeles, 1991. Maximilian Ophuls is knifed to death on the doorstep of his illegitimate daughter India, slaughtered by his Kashmiri driver, a mysterious figure who calls himself Shalimar, the Clown. The dead man is a World War II Resistance hero, a man of formidable intellectual ability and much erotic appeal, a former United States ambassador to India, and subsequently Americas counterterrorism chief. The murder looks at first like a political assassination but turns out to be passionately personal. This is the story of Max, his killer, and his daughter  and of a fourth character, the woman who links them all. The story of a deep love gone fatally wrong, destroyed by a shallow affair, it is an epic narrative that moves from California to France, England, and above all, Kashmir: a ruined paradise, not so much lost as smashed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45900066586822,"sku":"DADAX0099421887","price":38.03,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0695\/9389\/1014\/files\/91YWDu2gLGL.jpg?v=1780308550","url":"https:\/\/ergodemedia.com\/products\/shalimar-the-clown","provider":"Ergodemedia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}