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Northern Spy
A Thriller & Suspense Novel by Flynn Berry
Subgenres:
- Psychological Thriller,
- Northern Ireland,
- Family Drama
This book is for you if you're into...
- Contemporary Belfast thrillers with real-world political tension
- Sisters forced to choose between family loyalty and personal ideals
- Stories where motherhood collides with dangerous secrets
From Little Stack
Authors such as Abigail Dean, Paula Hawkins and Clare Mackintosh have raved about this book and for good reason! Tessa, a single mum and producer at the BBC, is at work one day when the news of another IRA raid comes on the air. As public help is requested to catch those responsible, Tessa's sister appears on the screen, pulling a black mask over her face.
When the truth of what has happened to her sister reveals itself, Tessa is forced to choose between her ideals and her family. A chilling read that is as moving as it is mysterious. An instant New York Times Bestseller and a Reese’s Book Club pick!
The acclaimed author of Under the Harrow and A Double Life returns with her most riveting novel to date: the story of two sisters who become entangled with the IRA.
A producer at the BBC and mother to a new baby, Tessa is at work in Belfast one day when the news of another raid comes on the air. The IRA may have gone underground in the two decades since the Good Friday Agreement, but they never really went away, and lately bomb threats, security checkpoints, and helicopters floating ominously over the city have become features of everyday life.
As the news reporter requests the public's help in locating those responsible for the robbery, security footage reveals Tessa's sister, Marian, pulling a black ski mask over her face. The police believe Marian has joined the IRA, but Tessa is convinced she must have been abducted or coerced; the sisters have always opposed the violence enacted in the name of uniting Ireland. And besides, Marian is vacationing on the north coast. Tessa just spoke to her yesterday.
When the truth about Marian comes to light, Tessa is faced with impossible choices that will test the limits of her ideals, the bonds of her family, her notions of right and wrong, and her identity as a sister and a mother. Walking an increasingly perilous road, she wants nothing more than to protect the one person she loves more fiercely than her sister: her infant son, Finn.
Riveting, atmospheric, and exquisitely written, Northern Spy is at once a heart-pounding story of the contemporary IRA and a moving portrait of sister- and motherhood, and of life in a deeply divided society.
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