The hunter

Tana French

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“An intricate portrayal of small-town Irish life tangled up within a slow-burning suspense novel. Tana French is brilliant at writing believable dialogue and conveying tension.”
The Hunter
Review by Rachel White

It’s a blazing summer when two men arrive in the village. They’re coming for gold. What they bring is trouble. Cal Hooper was a Chicago detective, till he moved to the West of Ireland looking for peace. He’s found it, more or less – in his relationship with local woman Lena, and the bond he’s formed with half-wild teenager Trey. So when two men turn up with a money-making scheme to find gold in the townland, Cal gets ready to do whatever it takes to protect Trey. Because one of the men is no stranger: he’s Trey’s father. But Trey doesn’t want protecting. What she wants is revenge.

ISBN: 9780241684269 Category:

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‘A richly told tale of tangled loyalties. French ratchets up the tension in increments . . . By the end, these characters have taken on such solidity that, long after finishing it, I often catch myself wondering how they’re doing – a testament to the author’s mastery of her craft’ GUARDIAN

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It’s a blazing summer when two men arrive in the village. They’re coming for gold. What they bring is trouble.

Cal Hooper was a Chicago detective, till he moved to the West of Ireland looking for peace. He’s found it, more or less – in his relationship with local woman Lena, and the bond he’s formed with half-wild teenager Trey. So when two men turn up with a money-making scheme to find gold in the townland, Cal gets ready to do whatever it takes to protect Trey. Because one of the men is no stranger: he’s Trey’s father.

But Trey doesn’t want protecting. What she wants is revenge.

Crackling with tension and slow-burn suspense, The Hunter explores what we’ll do for our loved ones, what we’ll do for revenge, and what we sacrifice when the two collide, from the Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller Tana French.


Nobody writes tension like Tana French:

‘Terrific – terrifying, amazing’ STEPHEN KING
‘One of the greats of contemporary crime fiction’ IAN RANKIN
‘The most important crime novelist to emerge in the last ten years’ WASHINGTON POST
‘A truly great writer’ GILLIAN FLYNN
‘Among the first rank of great literary novelists’ OBSERVER
‘A masterful, beautiful mystery…’ CHRIS WHITAKER
‘Crime fiction’s biggest contemporary star’ GUARDIAN
‘Completely, indescribably magnificent’ MARIAN KEYES
‘Lyrical, suspenseful, unpredictable’ HARLAN COBEN
‘Comes closer to perfection than anything I’ve read in the last decade’ SARAH HILARY
‘A spectacularly talented writer’ LOUISE O’NEILL

Additional information

Weight 0.648 kg
Dimensions 24 × 16.2 × 3.7 cm
Author

Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Hardback

Pages

409

Language

English

Edition

Hardback original

Dewey

823.92 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K

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