A measure of his skill, and gift for both language and character, that these techniques don't seem like contrivances, but rather widen the reader's sense of what a story can be.
Readers of the first book will be reunited with many of the folk they came to know but never fear, this works just as well as a standalone.
Ryan is always deeply engaged by the way the fortunes of 21st-century Ireland impact directly on his characters, interweaving a larger sense of danger and understanding of Ireland's history with domestic concerns.
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