Boy: Where family, violence, and memory collide – a darkly beautiful Irish noir - Couverture souple

Gyves, Mark

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1835015816 ISBN 13 : 9781835015810

Editeur : No Exit Press, 2026

Synopsis

When his mother’s death shatters his world, a boy is drawn into Cork’s criminal underbelly — a lyrical, devastating story of family, violence and the inescapable legacy of grief, for fans of Colin Barrett, Donal Ryan and Stuart Neville.

THE BOY is a novel of wasted talent, loss, greed and revenge – but also of discovered genius and joyous friendship.

By turns terrifying, taut, humane and tender it tells the origin story of Ireland’s organised-crime epidemic with a skill and grace which belies a debut novel, and is the calling-card of a ringing new voice in Irish fiction.

When the Guards knock on the door the Boy already knows his mother is dead. His father flees to the pub, leaving him to wait alone. Soon his brother Fallon, half-protector and half-outlaw, draws him into a world where grief and crime are rarely separated. At the same time, a wealthy landowner harbours grotesque secrets in the countryside - a hidden “family” of abducted boys, a nightmare lurking beneath respectability.

As the Boy moves through these fractured worlds - his father’s guilt, his uncle’s paramilitary past, his brother’s violent death - he becomes both witness and inheritor of a brutal legacy.

Think of a space where the layered complexity of Tana French meets the whip-smart dialogue and brutal beauty of Colin Barrett and the sharp tenderness and humour of Graeme Armstrong’s The Young Team – and you’re somewhere near where this novel will take you.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Mark Gyves is an Irish crime fi ction writer. He has lived and worked in the UK and Ireland and now resides in his hometown on the outskirts of Cork.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

When his mother’s death shatters his world, a boy is drawn into Cork’s criminal underbelly ― a lyrical, devastating story of family, violence and the inescapable legacy of grief, for fans of Colin Barrett, Donal Ryan and Stuart Neville.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: No Exit Press
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1835015816
• ISBN 13: 9781835015810
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Van Ditmar Boeken, VDB Sales; sales@vanditmar.nl; ; Hondiuslaan 44; Utrecht; 3528 AB; Pays-Bas