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The Undiscovered Country

Aidan McQuade

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Summary

For fans of Patrick McCabe's The Butcher Boy, Ken Bruen's In the Galway Silence, Eoin McNamee's The Resurrection Man, Benjamin Black's Quirke mysteries and Joseph O'Connor (Inishowen, The Salesman), as well as the Netflix series Rebellion and Resistance.Aidan McQuade was Director of Anti-Slavery International, the oldest human rights organisation in the world, for eleven years.The novel's gripping meditations on morality in times of conflict are born out of the author’s childhood in South Armagh during the Troubles, and his decades spent as a humanitarian and human rights worker everywhere from Afghanistan to Angola.
Available since: 08/20/2020.

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