{"product_id":"contrarian-a-novel-in-the-grand-illusion","title":"Contrarian: A Novel in the Grand Illusion","description":"L. E. Modesitt, Jr., bestselling author of Saga of Recluce and the Imager Portfolio, continues his gaslamp political fantasy series which began with Isolate and Councilor. Welcome to the Grand Illusion.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn Contrarian, protests against unemployment and poor harvests have become armed riots as the people sink deeper into poverty. They look to a government struggling to emerge from corruption and conspiracy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRecently elected to the Council of Sixty-Six, Steffan Dekkard is the first Councilor who is an Isolate, a man invulnerable to the emotional manipulations and emotional surveillance of empaths―but not the recent bombing of the Council Office Building by insurrectionists.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHis patron, the Premier of the Council, has been assassinated, leaving Dekkard with little first-hand political experience and few political allies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNot only must Dekkard handle political infighting, and continued assassination attempts, but it appears that someone high up in the government and corporations has supplied arms and explosives to insurrectionists.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInsurrectionists who have succeeded in taking over a naval cruiser that no one can seem to find.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Grand Illusion\u003cbr\u003eIsolate\u003cbr\u003eCouncilor\u003cbr\u003eContrarian\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOther Series by L.E. Modesitt, Jr.\u003cbr\u003eThe Imager Portfolio\u003cbr\u003eThe Saga of Recluce\u003cbr\u003eThe Corean Chronicles\u003cbr\u003eThe Spellsong Cycle\u003cbr\u003eThe Ghost Books\u003cbr\u003eThe Ecolitan Matter","brand":"Macmillan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47851053580514,"sku":"MTO-MACMILLAN-2026-05-29-6.75-1042","price":37.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0569\/9898\/5881\/files\/book_76_Min4N97gN.jpg?v=1780364126","url":"https:\/\/layitflat.com\/en-ca\/products\/contrarian-a-novel-in-the-grand-illusion","provider":"Lay it Flat Publishing Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}