The Rising - Softcover

Brian McGilloway

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0230746675 ISBN 13: 9780230746671

Publisher: MacMillan, 2010

Synopsis

The fourth book in the Inspector Devlin series.
When Garda Inspector Benedict Devlin is summoned to a burning barn, he finds inside the charred remains of local drug dealer, Martin Kielty. It soon becomes clear that Kielty’s death was no accident, and suspicion falls on a local vigilante group. Former paramilitaries, this group of men call themselves The Rising.
Meanwhile, a former colleague’s teenage son has gone missing during
a seaside camping trip. Devlin is relieved when the boy’s mother, Caroline Williams, receives a text message from her son’s phone, and so when a body is reported, washed up on a nearby beach, the inspector
is baffled.
When another drug dealer is killed, Devlin realizes that the spate of deaths is more complex than mere vigilantism. But just as it seems he is close to understanding the case, a personal crisis will strike at the heart of his own family, and he will be forced to confront the compromises his career has forced upon him.
Gripping, heartbreaking, and always surprising, The Rising is a tour de force and is Brian McGilloway’s most personal novel so far.
“McGilloway has created a truly human and original police officer, flawed, maverick, and vulnerable, and a clever web of intrigue that deepens—and darkens—as it twists. “
—Peter James, bestselling author of Dead Tomorrow
Brian McGilloway was born in Derry, Northern Ireland, in 1974, and teaches English at St Columb’s College. He lives near the Irish borderlands, with his wife and their three sons.

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About the Author

Brian McGilloway was born in Derry, Northern Ireland in 1974, and teaches English at St Columb's College, Derry. Previously he has written plays and short stories. He lives near the Borderlands, with his wife and their two sons.

From Publishers Weekly

In McGilloway's intriguing fourth mystery featuring Garda Insp. Benedict Devlin (after 2010's Bleed a River Deep), Devlin investigates a series of murders, each more devastating than the last. When the remains of a drug dealer are found in a burnt-down barn, evidence indicates the barn was set ablaze by the Rising, a local antidrug vigilante group. At the same time, Devlin faces a case that strikes closer to home: the body of a former colleague's son has washed up on a beach, and a posthumous text message from the son's phone hints that he and his two friends' innocent camping trip might not have been so innocent. The bleak borderlands between Ireland and Northern Ireland are the perfect setting for such shady characters, whose nebulous motivations are both plausible and surprising. Despite the dreary setting, the thrills are anything but dull. McGilloway builds a realistic world in which each of Devlin's actions is fraught with personal and moral peril. (Nov.)

About this edition

• Publisher: MacMillan
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0230746675
• ISBN 13: 9780230746671
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 357