Acts of Allegiance

A Novel

Mystery & Suspense, Espionage, Fiction & Literature, Thrillers
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Author: Peter Cunningham ISBN: 9781628729566
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Publication: September 11, 2018
Imprint: Arcade Publishing Language: English
Author: Peter Cunningham
ISBN: 9781628729566
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Publication: September 11, 2018
Imprint: Arcade Publishing
Language: English

Set in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, “a wonderful brew of a book about politics, family, violence, love, betrayal—life, in other words” (John Banville, Man Booker Prize–winning author of The Sea).

Marty Ransom, heir to a hilltop estate near Waterford in independent Ireland, lives a comfortable, boring life with his tennis-playing Anglican wife, Sugar, and a job in the Department of External Affairs. Among their closest friends are an Anglo-Irish couple, a banker who was Sugar’s childhood flame and his alluring diplomat wife, Alison. But Marty is a man divided.

While his father fought with the British Army and found respectability in marriage, Marty’s closest childhood friend was his cousin Iggy, the rebel son of a working-class Irish patriot whose gift for tinkering with radio parts has grown into a bomb maker’s skill.

When Marty is lured into keeping tabs on the growing IRA activities in support of the Catholic North, he finds himself walking a tightrope of conflicting yearnings and loyalties, balancing between nations, lovers, and parts of his own past, never knowing whom he can trust. But after Bloody Sunday escalates the violence and the British mount a desperate operation to take out a notorious IRA bomber, he must choose, and risk everything he loves most—his wife and young son—as well as his own life.

“Remarkable . . . [A] beautiful, twisting story.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)

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Set in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, “a wonderful brew of a book about politics, family, violence, love, betrayal—life, in other words” (John Banville, Man Booker Prize–winning author of The Sea).

Marty Ransom, heir to a hilltop estate near Waterford in independent Ireland, lives a comfortable, boring life with his tennis-playing Anglican wife, Sugar, and a job in the Department of External Affairs. Among their closest friends are an Anglo-Irish couple, a banker who was Sugar’s childhood flame and his alluring diplomat wife, Alison. But Marty is a man divided.

While his father fought with the British Army and found respectability in marriage, Marty’s closest childhood friend was his cousin Iggy, the rebel son of a working-class Irish patriot whose gift for tinkering with radio parts has grown into a bomb maker’s skill.

When Marty is lured into keeping tabs on the growing IRA activities in support of the Catholic North, he finds himself walking a tightrope of conflicting yearnings and loyalties, balancing between nations, lovers, and parts of his own past, never knowing whom he can trust. But after Bloody Sunday escalates the violence and the British mount a desperate operation to take out a notorious IRA bomber, he must choose, and risk everything he loves most—his wife and young son—as well as his own life.

“Remarkable . . . [A] beautiful, twisting story.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)

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