Setting and Main Character

Dublin, 1922, as civil war sets brother against brother and Free State and Republican death squads stalk the streets and back lanes of Dublin, demobbed RIC-man, Sean O'Keefe, takes a break from life as a whiskey-soaked waster to search for the missing son of one of Monto's most powerful brothel owners.

Plot and Themes

Hired to find the boy amid the tumult and terror of a country at war with itself, O'Keefe soon finds that the story is not as simple as it first seemed and that the truth can be hard to pin down. The second book in the O'Keefe series, Irregulars, explores a fascinating and complex period of Irish history.

Praise

Praise for Peeler: "A ... dark, brooding, morally complex masterpiece..." Belfast Telegraph