{"product_id":"the-trade-underground","title":"The Trade Underground","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDESCRIPTION:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eTHE SYSTEM HAS RULES. THIS IS THE BOOK ABOUT THE ONES THEY DON'T PUBLISH.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eEvery object you own crossed a border. At that border, someone decided what it was, what it was worth, and what it owed. \u003cem\u003eThe Trade Underground\u003c\/em\u003e is the first insider account of the hidden war fought over that decision.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eFor twenty-five years, James R. Ferry II has worked the seam where global trade meets federal enforcement — the windowless audit rooms, the 2 a.m. phone calls, the containers frozen on the pier while a company's survival ticks down to a number nobody in the building saw coming.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThis is a world of double invoices and shell-company wires, transshipment fronts that vanish in forty-eight hours, and carbon ledgers laundered with a single keystroke — hunted by a government machine of satellites, algorithms, and the long memory of the banking system. These are real cases, anonymized to protect the people in them and backed by the law that actually decided them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003ePart war-story collection, part field manual, part confession, it reads like a thriller and teaches you how the border truly works: why the paper always loses to the physics, why your broker isn't your shield, and what it costs to hold the line at the water's edge.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eInside: a poker match across a CBP audit table; a $120M valuation fraud undone by a single serial number; a midnight run to beat a forced-labor detention; the day the $800 e-commerce door welded shut; the carbon lie that burned down a company.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eIt teaches you to distrust the beautiful document and believe the physical truth underneath it — before the machine makes you.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Trade Underground Press","offers":[{"title":"Perfect Bound","offer_id":67390142611760,"sku":"9798997149901","price":15.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.thegreatbritishbookshop.co.uk\/products\/the-trade-underground","provider":"The Great British Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}