Vengeance: A Novel [Paperback]

Quirke finds himself at the center of a deadly intergenerational feud in the latest novel from Booker Prize-winning literary polymath (The New York Times) John Banville

Two men go sailing off the coast of Ireland. Only one comes back, claiming the other shot himself. But Detective Inspector Hackett and his friend Quirke arent so sure&

The dead man is the patriarch of the powerful Delahaye family; the survivor is the scion of the Clancy family, their longtime rivals turned resentful business partners. As Quirke and Hackett investigate the death, they become embroiled in this multigenerational entanglement, encountering a host of characters at the heart of the mystery: Mona, Delahayes beautiful, vicious young widow, his enigmatic identical twin sons, and Jack Clancy, his resentful, downtrodden, womanizing partner. But when a second, even more shocking death occurs, it becomes clear that terrible secrets undergird the families worldsecrets which Quirke will need to uncover if he wants to prevent more deaths.

JOHN BANVILLEwas born in Wexford, Ireland, in 1945. He is the author of numerous novels, includingThe Sea, which won the 2005 Booker Prize, and the DI Quirke mysteries. In 2011 he was awarded the Franz Kafka Prize, in 2013 he was awarded the Irish PEN Award for Outstanding Achievement in Irish Literature, and in 2014 he won the Prince of Asturias Award, Spains most important literary prize. He lives in Dublin.

Praise forVengeance

Banville has become a dab hand at certain flourishes of classic genre writing, from the thumbnail character sketch&to the single startling image that turns the story on its head.
The New York Times

The [Quirke] books (this is the sixth) remain enticing, sultry pleasures.
The New York Times

The prose is gloriously limpid&.The [Quirke] novels dont play up to all the clich?s of crime drama, and therein lies thelã*