Dublin - Sean Moncrieff

Dublin was mucky and vulgar. Like a tourist who gets drunk and wakes up with a huge tattoo.

This is what it''s like for you: your name is Simon Dillon. You''re 35. You''re a failure. Too hungover to go to work, too lazy to get a new job, too keen to blame everyone else: your mad father, your estranged wife, your so-called friends. Blame them. Blame Dublin.

You''d rather do a few lines of coke, but there''s a beautiful French woman you can''t remember meeting, cops banging on the door asking about a dead woman you don''t know, Russian gangsters asking questions you can''t answer. Murders all over the city; bombs in O''Connell Street.

And it''s got nothing to do with you. Except that it''s all your fault.

A needle-sharp, funny and scathing thriller, set in a Dublin most people don''t read about - the real one.