DESPERADOES
A telephone call shatters the calm of a Dublin summer morning bringing terrible news from war-torn Nicaragua: 21-year-old Johnny Little has been caught up in a mysterious skirmish and killed. Grief-stricken, his estranged parents Frank and Eleanor set out on the arduous journey to bring their wayward son home. It’s a quest that will have profound consequences: in this hauntingly beautiful land of poetry, guns and frantic salsa music, nothing is quite what it seems…
*****
“An astonishing display of assured, emotive, witty writing. Read it.”
Independent on Sunday
“This is a very entertaining novel. It is also a generously humane one.”
Sunday Times
“Ireland’s most brilliant storyteller.”
Sunday Independent
“Desperadoes is an intelligent thriller that attempts to explore the way in which children always remain a mystery to the people who raise them.”
New Statesman
*****
