New York: Picador, (1998.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Award-winning author's first novel: the murder of a man's brother forces his return to the small Irish town where he grew up. One review called this "Fast-moving and harshly observed. This is a new Ireland, somewhere between Roddy Doyle and Quentin Tarantino, post-Catholic." 308 pp. ISBN: 0-312182066.