by Gerald Seymour
The passage of time does little to detract from this brilliant tour de force novel set in the blood soaked streets of Belfast in the mid 1970's. Henry Danby government minister is murdered in front of his wife and children by professional hitman Billy Downs....."Others determined the morality. Other...
I read this because the music from the TV series hunted me even though I never got to watch the program.The book is exciting and horrifying (especially for someone brought up with The Troubles featuring on the news every night) and tragic.It probably feels quite dated now but is worth reading.
"Cock-up" appears to be a delightfully beguiling British phrase to describe what we Americans would call a major "fuck-up." Both of those euphemisms apply to the events described in this book. Seymour writes well and has a decidedly jaundiced view of virtually every layer of society except perhaps t...
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