by Sam Millar
Shaw left, stumbling over the tiny hills of muck, cursing as he did so.
Fatigued, Jack turned and made his way across the sodden ground. Directly above, he could hear the sound of birds, crows, caw-caw cawing. Their sound was everywhere.
About the Author
Sam Millar’s writing has been praised for its “fluency and courage of language” by Jennifer Johnson, and he has been hailed by best-selling American author Anne-Marie Duquette as “a powerful writer”. He is a winner of the Martin Healy Short Story Award, the Brian Moore Award for Short Stories, the Cork Literary Review Competition, and the Aisling Award for Art and Culture. Born in Belfast, where he still lives, he is married and has three children. Of his first crime novel, The Redemption Factory, the Irish Independent said: “He writes well, with a certain raw energy, and he is not afraid to take risks with his fiction. The result is a novel that can sometimes be as shocking as it is original.” He is also the author of one other previous novel, Dark Souls.
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First published 2006 by Brandon
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