{"product_id":"the-bureau-by-eoin-mcnamee-9781529440447","title":"The Bureau","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e'Some of the most beautiful prose being written in Ireland today' \u003ci\u003eIrish Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\n\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eHarper's\u003c\/i\u003e most talked-about thriller novel 2025\u003c\/b\u003e\n\n\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eIrish Times\u003c\/i\u003e Book of the Year 2025\u003c\/b\u003e\n\n\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eCritic\u003c\/i\u003e Book of the Year 2025\u003c\/b\u003e\n\n\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e Crime Book of the Year 2025\u003c\/b\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLorraine 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCould she not see there was death about him? Could he not see there was death about her?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePaddy 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThere'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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePaddy 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47773149561068,"sku":"9781529440447","price":27.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781529440447-the-bureau.jpg?v=1782183364","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/the-bureau-by-eoin-mcnamee-9781529440447","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}