The Bureau - a gritty tale of love and death in Northern Ireland

There are two important things to know about the novels of the Northern Irish writer Eoin McNamee. The first is that they are short; the second is that they are brilliant. The two points are connected: McNamee''s books are intense and compressed, but so carefully worked that they read smoothly . He writes about difficult stuff, his voice somewhere between James Ellroy and Don DeLillo with a touch of Cormac McCarthy . . . Right from the start the pages sizzle with danger and death . . . You don''t realise how many books are filled with empty sentences until you read one that doesn''t have any. Nothing is wasted here : there''s no blah, no waffle, none of what Elmore Leonard called "hooptedoodle". . . And the best part? It''s all true - or true enough. Many of the characters, as with all McNamee''s books, are real. Paddy and Lorraine were real, and did die together, in September 1997. You can read about them online. Or you can read about it in McNamee''s tremendous novel, which is a lot more fun.>

Product details

• Authors: Eoin McNamee
• Publisher: Riverrun
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Release: 26.03.2026
• EAN: 9781529440447
• ISBN: 978-1-5294-4044-7
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Crime & mystery, True Crime, FICTION / Political, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Hard-Boiled, TRUE CRIME / General, FICTION / Noir, Northern Ireland, Narrative theme: Politics, Crime and mystery: hard-boiled crime, noir fiction, Fiction: narrative themes