Format:
Book
Title:
Bloodland : a novel / Alan Glynn.
Author:
Glynn, Alan, 1960-
Call Number:
FIC GLYNN A
Edition:
1st U.S. ed.
Publisher, Date:
New York : Picador, 2012.
Description:
364 p. ; 21 cm.
Summary:
"A helicopter crash kills six random passengers off the coast of Ireland. A mercenary working for a private security contractor in the Congo starts a bloody gun battle, endangering the valuable package he is assigned to protect. An Irish politician makes a risky gambit to revive his career, while protecting one of his darkest secrets. The last thing Jimmy Gilroy, a hungry young Dublin journalist, expected when hired to write a hack biography of a dead starlet was a Pulitzer-worthy scoop. Soon, however, he stumbles upon a bizarre nexus of coincidence between his subject and these disparate people and events around the world, a real story of frightening reach and consequence--one that could cost him his life. Set against a vividly drawn world of commerce, corrupt politics, and international intrigue, Alan Glynn's Bloodland is a riveting paranoid thriller of uncommon depth and page-turning suspense. "--Provided by publisher.
Subjects:
Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc. -- Fiction.
Genre:
Suspense fiction.
ISBN:
0312621280
9780312621285 (pbk.)