The Boy by Mark Gyves

Description he Boy is a powerful novel of wasted talent, loss, greed and revenge but also of discovered genius and life-affirming friendship. By turns terrifying, taut, humane and tender it tells the origin story of Irelands organised-crime epidemic with a skill and grace which belies a debut novel, and is the calling-card of a ringing new voice in Irish fiction. When the Guards knock on the door The Boy already knows his mother is dead. His father flees to the pub, leaving him to wait alone. Soon his brother Fallon, half-protector and half-outlaw, draws him into a world where grief and crime are rarely separated. At the same time, a wealthy landowner harbours grotesque secrets in the countryside – a hidden family of abducted boys, a nightmare lurking beneath respectability. As The Boy moves through these fractured worlds – his fathers guilt, his uncles paramilitary past, his brothers violent death – he becomes both witness and inheritor of a brutal legacy. Customers Also Liked Related products Boy on Fire The Young Nick Cave by Mark Mordue The Balkans by Mark Mazower Reborn by Mark Millar Reviews