Joseph O'Connor was born in Dublin. His books include Cowboys and
Indians, Inishowen, Star of the Sea (American Library Association
Award, Irish Post Award for Fiction, France's Prix Millepages,
Italy's Premio Acerbi, Prix Madeleine Zepter for European novel of
the year), Redemption Falls, Ghost Light (Dublin One City One Book
Novel 2011), Shadowplay (Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year, Costa
Novel of the Year shortlist) and My Father's House (Walter Scott
Prize shortlist). His fiction has been translated into forty
languages. He received the 2012 Irish PEN Award for Outstanding
Contribution to Literature and in 2014 he was appointed Frank
McCourt Professor of Creative Writing at the University of
Limerick.
www.josephoconnorauthor.com
A spectacular, thrilling novel...suspense crackles...celebrates
triumphant against-the-odds camaraderie.
*Sunday Times*
O'Connor is on stellar form with this ensemble thriller ...while
the story's inbuilt tension urges you on, it's the sheer vigour of
O'Connor's beautifully turned phrases that really makes the book
sing...an expert storyteller
*Daily Mail*
A literary thriller of the highest order. The incarnation of
O'Flaherty, the Irish Oskar Schindler, is sublime. What often
elevates a writer is compassion, and O'Connor has it in spades...
Beautifully crafted, his razor-sharp dialogue is to be savoured,
and he employs dark humour to great effect. The plot twists keep on
coming
*Observer*
Breathtakingly good writing - O'Connor puts you right there, centre
stage in the story and never lets you go
*Peter James*
The novel's evocative scene-setting, its propulsive narration and
its powerful depiction of bravery and unity in extremis, all make
for an engrossing read.
*Telegraph*
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