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The Bureau

a gritty tale of love and death in Northern Ireland
By Eoin McNamee
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'Some of the most beautiful prose being written in Ireland today' Irish Times A Harper's most talked-about thriller novel 2025 A Irish Times Book of the Year 2025 A Critic Book of the Year 2025 A Guardian Crime Book of the Year 2025 Lorraine would say... Read More
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The Bureau is a hair raising story of kidnap, murder and fraud, set on the Irish borderlands.

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'Some of the most beautiful prose being written in Ireland today' Irish Times A Harper's most talked-about thriller novel 2025 A Irish Times Book of the Year 2025 A Critic Book of the Year 2025 A Guardian Crime Book of the Year 2025

Lorraine would say afterwards that she was smitten straight off with Paddy Farrell. You could tell that he was occupying the room in a different way, he found the spaces that fitted him. She was the kind of girl the papers called vivacious, always a bit of dazzle to her.

Could she not see there was death about him? Could he not see there was death about her?

Paddy worked the border, a place of road closures, hijackings, sudden death. Everything bootleg and tawdry, nobody is saying that the law is paid off but it is. This is strange terrain, unsolid, ghosted through.

There's illicit cash coming across the border and Brendan's backstreet Bureau de Change is the place to launder it. Brendan knows the rogue lawyers, the nerve-shot policemen, the alcoholic judges and he doesn't care about getting caught. For the Bureau crew, getting caught is only the start of the game.

Paddy and his associates were a ragged band and honourless and their worth to themselves was measured in thievery and fraud. But Lorraine was not a girl to be treated lightly. She's cast as a minx, a criminal's moll, but she's bought a shotgun. And she's bought a grave.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781529440447

Publisher: Quercus Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 26 March 2026

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: riverrun

Illustration: N/A

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 22.0mm

Width: 128.0mm

Height: 196.0mm

Weight: 195g

Pages: 272

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Biography & Memoir Crime & Thriller Eoin McNamee Fiction General Fiction True Crime

About the Author

Eoin McNamee's first children's book THE NAVIGATOR has received critical acclaim in the US and the UK. His adult books have been shortlisted for the Irish Times Literature Prize and twice longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. He has lived in London, Dublin and New York and is now settled in Sligo on the west coast of Ireland.

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