barbara fister reviewed Ghosts of Belfast by Stuart Neville
Review of 'Ghosts of Belfast' on 'LibraryThing'
A brutal book about an ex convict who is trying to redeem his sins - not because he's changed his stripes but because the twelve people he killed on behalf of Irish Catholic thugs-cum-freedom fighters are haunting him, literally. He sets out to kill the people who ordered the murders, one by one, just as the Good Friday Agreement is being negotiated. The facade of respectability various men have erected to conceal the fact that they were more after money than freedom is threatened by the murders, and an undercover operative is sent in to settle things...which just makes everything worse. Heartfelt and very bleak.