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 Carre and 24, 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's Bloodland is a spectacular international thriller of conspiracy from the writer of Limitless and Winterland.
About the Author
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 De Niro - in Spring 2011.
Awards
Short-listed for Edgar for Best Paperback Original 2013.
Book Information
ISBN 9780571275441
Author Alan Glynn
Format Paperback
Page Count 432
Imprint Faber & Faber
Publisher Faber & Faber
Weight(grams) 328g
Dimensions(mm) 198mm * 126mm * 27mm
