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Lies of Silence

Brian Moore author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Vintage Publishing

Published:2nd May '19

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A gripping novel that mirrors the disintegration of our times - as the Mail on Sunday says 'An armchair time bomb'.

When Michael Dillon is ordered by the IRA to park his car in the carpark of a Belfast hotel, he is faced with a moral choice which leaves him absolutely nowhere to turn. But he also knows that if he doesn't, his wife will be killed.

See also: Reading in the Dark by Seamus Deane

When Michael Dillon is ordered by the IRA to park his car in the carpark of a Belfast hotel, he is faced with a moral choice which leaves him absolutely nowhere to turn. He knows that he is planting a bomb that would kill and maim dozens of people. But he also knows that if he doesn't, his wife will be killed.

See also: Reading in the Dark by Seamus Deane

An armchair time bomb * Mail on Sunday *
This is a novel to mirror the disintegration of our times, the unstated irony of which is that a politics so provincial can breed a writer and an art so universal * Observer *
A gripping read which you will find impossible to put down * Literary Review *
Very much the thinking person's thriller - utterly tense and riveting, but also posing an acute moral dilemma for an ordinary person caught up in the troubled politics of Northern Ireland * Daily Express *
It insists on being read at a sitting, for it is imperative to know what happens next * Financial Times *

ISBN: 9781784875527

Dimensions: 197mm x 130mm x 13mm

Weight: 153g

208 pages