In 1982 Malcolm Macarthur, the wealthy heir to a small estate,
found himself suddenly without money. The solution, he decided, was
to rob a bank. To do this, he would need a gun and a car. In the
process of procuring them, he killed two people, and the
circumstances of his eventual arrest in the apartment of Ireland's
Attorney General nearly brought down the government. The case
remains one of the most shocking in Ireland's history. Mark
O'Connell has long been haunted by the story of this brutal double
murder. But in recent years this haunting has become mutual. When
O'Connell sets out to unravel the mysteries still surrounding these
horrific and inexplicable crimes, he tracks down Macarthur himself,
now an elderly man living out his days in Dublin and reluctant to
talk. As the two men circle one another, O'Connell is pushed into a
confrontation with his own narrative: what does it mean to write
about a murderer?
General
Imprint: |
Granta Books
|
Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
June 2024 |
Authors: |
Mark O'Connell
|
Dimensions: |
198 x 129mm (L x W) |
Pages: |
304 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-78378-771-5 |
Categories: |
Books
|
LSN: |
1-78378-771-6 |
Barcode: |
9781783787715 |
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