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Eoin McNamee

Author of The Navigator

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Includes the name: Eoin McNamee

Also includes: John Creed (1)

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Works by Eoin McNamee

The Navigator (2006) 278 copies
Resurrection Man (1994) 155 copies
City of Time (2007) 107 copies
The Blue Tango (2001) 70 copies
The Ring of Five (2010) 63 copies
The Frost Child (2009) 47 copies
The Ultras (2004) 41 copies
Orchid Blue (2010) 36 copies
The Sirius Crossing (2002) 33 copies
The Unknown Spy (2011) 33 copies
The Day of the Dead (2003) 25 copies
The Ghost Roads (2012) 23 copies
Blue is the Night (2014) 19 copies
Black Cat Black Dog (2006) 18 copies
The Vogue (2018) 14 copies
Requiem (2012) 3 copies
The Language of Birds (1995) 3 copies
Last of Deeds (1989) 2 copies
Nos limited do terror (1998) 2 copies
Blau ist die Nacht (2016) 2 copies
00 : 23, Pont de l'Alma (2007) 2 copies

Associated Works

The Penguin Book of Irish Fiction (1999) — Contributor — 149 copies
Belfast Noir (2014) — Contributor — 88 copies
The Penguin Book of Irish Comic Writing (1996) — Author, some editions — 25 copies

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Danny Caulfield's quiet Christmas break from Wilsons, the school for spies, is shattered by gunshots and a heartrending discovery about his parents. That same night, he's summoned to Wilsons' to prepare for a mission: under an assumed identity, Danny must find a way to protect the Treaty Stone that keeps peace between the Upper and Lower worlds. Meanwhile, the evil Ring of Five pursues Danny, for he is the "true Fifth"—only Danny can unite the members of the Ring and awaken their full powers as master spies… (more)
 
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JESGalway | Mar 6, 2018 |
This novel is about a young boy who finds himself in a very strange situation.

Owen's father committed suicide, and people around town whisper that Owen will follow in his father's footsteps. Mom has sunk into a fog of depression. In Owen's forest hideaway, there is a huge flash, and everything has changed. Geographically, Owen is in the same place, but everything, and everyone, that he knew is gone. A person called the Sub-Commandant tells Owen that a rag-tag group of humans called the Resisters are at war with ethereal beings called the Harsh. They have succeeded in causing time to run backwards. The intention of the Harsh is to go back to a time before humans, take over Earth, and turn it into a frozen wasteland.

Some of the Resisters think that Owen is a spy for the Harsh, or, at minimum, a collaborator. Before he died, Owen's father played a significant part in causing the war. The only way to end the war, and to get time going in the right direction, is to bring a special piece called the Mortmain, to the Puissance, or Great Machine, far to the north. Then Owen must go down into the earth a great distance, and place the Mortmain in the right spot. Naturally, the Harsh will be waiting. Does Owen succeed? Does Own even survive? Is everything restored to the way it was?

As you may have guessed, this is a young adult novel, and, as such, it is pretty good. There are good characters, and plenty of action. Older young people, and adults, will also like this book.
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plappen | 3 other reviews | May 9, 2015 |
This book is disappointing the novel is about the mysterious disappearance of Robert Noriac he was an undercover M15 agent in Northern Ireland he went missing presumed dead in 1977
Blair Agnew an ex policeman wants to write a book about this event.

Book is complicated and keeps jumping a shame because it could have been a really good read.
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Daftboy1 | 1 other review | Dec 21, 2014 |
A Masterpiece from the Irish Master.

Blue is the Night is the final part of Eoin McNamee’s loose crime trilogy based on events in Belfast between 1949 and 1952, based on real events turned in to novel format which gets its claws in to you. What I like about Blue is the Night it is a wonderful examination of murder, guilt, madness and corruption as well as the ghosts of the past. Knowing that all this was possible in a democratic country and when you look at the cases themselves you wonder you really do wonder what the truth was and is.

In April 1949 a young man known as Robert the Painter is arrested for the murder of
Mary McGowan and is sent for trial by the Attorney General Lance Curran who will prosecute the case, nothing new in that. The only problem this case is in Belfast in 1949 the six counties of Ulster are no longer part of the new Republic of Ireland and have been separated for little over twenty years. There is a great divide between the Catholic and the mainly Protestant community’s suspicion and fear, Catholics fearing that they are not given a fair hearing in Parliament or in the eyes of the law. This murder has been committed by a protestant on a catholic woman, all the ingredients for some very major problems in Belfast.

Lance Curran prosecutes the case in defiance of the majority Protestants who do everything they can to have the case dismissed or at least the defence win. While doing this Curran has much to contend with at home, his wife and her mental illnesses, his wayward daughter and his religious son. While Ferguson his fix is always moving in the background doing fixing but for who? Then in 1952 Patricia Curran’s daughter is murdered and the book is about the search for the truth for the 1949 and 1952 murders. All this takes place in the 1960s as now Judge Curran sits on the trial of a murder similar to the murder of his daughter.

Ferguson attempts to find the truth amongst everything else that has gone on and he is dependant up on Doris Curran revealing what happened the night of Patricia’s murder the only problem she is a resident of a mental health hospital and not too lucid very often. To find the truth he has to unpick what he did in those distant years to be able to get close to the truth.

What I like about Blue Is the Night is the clear prose and how it makes the sentences pass by with ease as NcNamee draws you further in with this compulsive story. This is an examination of trying to deal with your own conscience while everything else is out of your own control. How the evil in the world can sometimes be protected from the world by corruption and lies even if they intent is for the greater good. It is a wonderful examination of how complex we all are and ask ourselves what would we have done? This is a brilliant retelling of events of Belfast in its infancy when everything was at stake and still is.
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