Pegasus
June 2015
On Sale: June 15, 2015
Featuring: John Delahunt
352 pages ISBN: 1605987948 EAN: 9781605987941 Kindle: B00QO4CWWK Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
Beautifully observed, seductive, and laced with dark humor,
a gripping historical thriller — set in 1840s Dublin — about
a man who betrays his family, his friends, his society and,
ultimately, himself.
Dublin, 1841. On a cold December
morning, a small boy is enticed away from his mother and his
throat savagely cut. This could be just one more small, sad
death in a city riven by poverty, inequality and political
unrest, but this murder causes a public outcry. For it
appears the culprit - a feckless student named John Delahunt
- is also an informant in the pay of the authorities at
Dublin Castle. And strangely, this young man seems neither
to regret what he did, nor fear his punishment. Indeed, as
he awaits the hangman in his cell in Kilmainham Gaol, John
Delahunt decides to tell his story in this, his final,
deeply unsettling statement...
Based on true events
that convulsed Victorian Ireland, The Convictions of
John Delahunt is the tragic tale of a man who betrays
his family, his friends, his society and, ultimately,
himself. Set amidst Dublin's taverns, tenements, courtrooms,
and alleyways and with a rich, Dickensian cast of
characters, this enthralling, at times darkly humorous novel
brilliantly evokes a time and a place, and introduces a
remarkable new literary voice.
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