Winterland
A Novel
Alan Glynn
- "Timely,
- topical,
- and
- thrilling."--
- John
- Connolly"A
- terrific
- read...completely
- involving."--
- George
- Pelecanos"WINTERLAND
- sets
- a
- dramatically
- high
- benchmark
- for
- emerald
- noir.
- With
- all
- the
- operatic
- inevitability
- of
- Greek
- tragedy,
- it
- anatomises
- what
- greed
- has
- done
- to
- Ireland.
- A
- resonant,
- memorable
- and
- uncomfortable
- read."--
- Val
- McDermid"This
- is
- the
- colossus
- of
- Irish
- crime
- fiction,
- what
- Mystic
- River
- did
- for
- Dennis
- Lehane,
- WINTERLAND
- should
- do
- for
- Alan
- Glynn,
- it
- is
- a
- noir
- masterpiece,
- the
- bar
- against
- which
- all
- future
- works
- will
- be
- judged."
--
- Ken
- BruenWinterland
- is
- a
- blistering
- unputdownable
- novel
- about
- power,
- lies
- and
- the
- corrupting
- influence
- of
- money.
- It
- is
- the
- first
- in
- a
- series
- on
- the
- dark
- and
- clandestine
- underside
- of
- globalization
- and
- announces
- a
- compelling
- new
- voice
- in
- contemporary
- crime
- writing.The
- worlds
- of
- business,
- politics
- and
- crime
- collide
- when
- two
- men
- with
- the
- same
- name,
- from
- the
- same
- family,
- die
- on
- the
- same
- night—one
- death
- is
- a
- gangland
- murder,
- the
- other,
- apparently,
- a
- road
- accident.
- Was
- it
- a
- coincidence?
- That's
- the
- official
- version
- of
- events.
- But
- when
- a
- family
- member,
- Gina
- Rafferty,
- starts
- asking
- questions,
- this
- notion
- quickly
- unravels.Devastated
- by
- her
- loss,
- Gina's
- grief
- is
- tempered,
- and
- increasingly
- fuelled,
- by
- anger—because
- the
- more
- she's
- told
- that
- it
- was
- all
- a
- coincidence,
- that
- gangland
- violence
- is
- commonplace,
- that
- people
- die
- on
- our
- roads
- every
- day
- of
- the
- week,
- the
- less
- she's
- prepared
- to
- accept
- it.
- Told
- repeatedly
- that
- she
- should
- stop
- asking
- questions,
- Gina
- becomes
- more
- determined
- than
- ever
- to
- find
- out
- the
- truth,
- to
- establish
- a
- connection
- between
- the
- two
- deaths—but
- in
- doing
- so
- she
- embarks
- on
- a
- path
- that
- will
- push
- certain
- powerful
- people
- to
- their limits...
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