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Synopsis
At 2.20am on 13th November 1952 the body of nineteen-year-old Patricia Curran was carried into the family doctor's surgery. She had been stabbed thirty-seven times... The Curran family were tainted by scandal - Judge Lance Curran, weighed down by gambling debt; Desmond, lost in religious zealotry - and there were rumors of savage disagreements between Patricia and her mother. In a storm of publicity, Chief Superintendent John Capstick uncovers a complex web of deceit. Determined to secure a conviction, his focus falls on a peripheral figure, a young army conscript, Iain Hay Gordon, who finds himself fighting for his life in the shadow of the gallows.
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About the Author
Eoin McNamee's novels include Resurrection Man, later made into a film, The Blue Tango, which was longlisted for the Booker Prize, and Orchid Blue, described by John Burnside in the Guardian as 'not only into a political novel of the highest order but also that rare phenomenon, a genuinely tragic work of art.'. He lives in Sligo.
Review
"McNamee is a writer of such vision and such deft, angry prose that anything by him is worth a look."
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- PublisherFaber and Faber
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 0571225799
- ISBN 13 9780571225798
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages288
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