Ravenhill by John Steele

Ravenhill by John Steele

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An explosive thriller set in the violent Belfast underworld, past and present, among the shifting loyalties and vicious feuds of the paramilitaries and the security forces struggling to contain them. Vivid and relentless, Ravenhill is one of the finest novels to emerge from the brick-hard backstreets of Belfast.

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Ravenhill by John Steele

Belfast, 1993: Jackie Shaw is a young tearaway running with paramilitaries in Belfast. He treads a fine line keeping psychotic hard-man Rab Simpson in check while sleeping with gang leader Billy Tyrie's beautiful wife on the side. When a bomb claims nine lives, he is given the role of getaway driver in a planned reprisal killing, a key role in a major operation. But Jackie may not be who he seems ...Twenty years later, Jackie returns to the city for his father's funeral after disappearing in mysterious circumstances. He wants to mourn then leave, but when figures from his past emerge, he is left with no choice but to revisit his violent former life. The first in the Jackie Shaw series, RAVENHILL is a stunning debut novel from a brilliant new voice in crime fiction.
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ISBN 13 9781909269712
ISBN 10 1909269719
Title Ravenhill
Author John Steele
Series Jackie Shaw
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Silvertail Books
Year published 2017-08-17
Number of pages 306
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