{"product_id":"the-boy-by-mark-gyves-9781835015810","title":"The Boy","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Boy is a powerful novel of wasted talent, loss, greed and revenge – but also of discovered genius and life-affirming friendship. By turns terrifying, taut, humane and tender it tells the origin story of Ireland’s organised-crime epidemic with a skill and grace which belies a debut novel, and is the calling-card of a ringing new voice in Irish fiction. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhen the Guards knock on the door The Boy already knows his mother is dead.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHis father flees to the pub, leaving him to wait alone. Soon his brother Fallon, half-protector and half-outlaw, draws him into a world where grief and crime are rarely separated. At the same time, a wealthy landowner harbours grotesque secrets in the countryside - a hidden “family” of abducted boys, a nightmare lurking beneath respectability.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs The Boy moves through these fractured worlds - his father’s guilt, his uncle’s paramilitary past, his brother’s violent death - he becomes both witness and inheritor of a brutal legacy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mark Gyves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54215133364565,"sku":null,"price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0877\/7462\/6133\/files\/9781835015810_1f0c8829-0c1b-46cb-a6f3-0a693e79bf61.jpg?v=1782312389","url":"https:\/\/www.gumshoebooks.com\/products\/the-boy-by-mark-gyves-9781835015810","provider":"Gumshoe Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}