Book description
A private security contractor loses it in the Congo, with deadly
consequences, while in Ireland the ex-prime minister struggles to
write his memoir. A tabloid star is killed in a helicopter crash and
three years later a young journalist is warned off the story. As a
news story breaks in Paris, a US senator prepares his campaign to run
for office. What links these things and who controls what we know?
With echoes of John Le Carré, 24 and James Ellroy, Alan Glynn has
written another crime novel of and for our times - a ferocious
thriller that moves from Dublin to New York via West Africa, and
thrillingly explores the legacy of corruption in big business, the
West's fear of China, the fate of ex-military, the role of back room
political players, and the quick fix of online news.
Alan Glynn is a graduate of Trinity College Dublin, where he
studied English Literature, and has worked in magazine publishing in
New York and as an EFL teacher in Italy. His second novel, Winterland,
was published to huge acclaim in 2009, while his first novel The Dark
Fields was released as the film Limitless - starring Bradley Cooper
and Robert DeNiro - in Spring 2011.
