The Branchman

• Author(s): Nessa O’Mahony,
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Pages: 362
• ISBN_10: 1851321896
  ISBN_13: 9781851321896
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Fiction / Thrillers / Political , Fiction / General ,

Description:... In this complex political thriller set in Galway in 1925, Detective Officer Michael Mackey of the newly-created Special Branch has been sent to the Garda Barracks in Ballinasloe on a mission to root out subversives. Soon he has a murder to solve, stolen arms to recover, and a lost love to rescue.This novel offers a timely, irreverent view of a young, febrile Irish Free State from the perspective of its newest police force, An Garda Síochána.