Ordinary Decent Criminals

by Lionel Shriver

Genres: Literary Fiction

Synopsis

Having abandoned Philadelphia for the life of a nomad, Estrin Lancaster now finds herself in Belfast, a city scarred by twenty years of ritualised violence. As the former purveyor of his own bomb-disposal service, Farrell O'Phelan courts the company of destruction. Technically a Catholic, he shuns allegiance. For these two, normal life is anathema; love is a trap. What ensues is an affair beset with a fear of domesticity and a hunger for devastation.

Release date: August 11, 2015

Publisher: Harper Perennial

Print pages: 464