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From the award-winning author comes a gripping account of one of the most scandalous chapters in modern Irish history, at once a propulsive work of true crime & an act of literary subversion.Irish journalist Mark O'Connell's A Thread of Violence is an engrossing & intimate glimpse into the psyche of an actual yet improbable murderer.Over the course of a few weeks in the summer of 1982, 37-year-old Malcolm Macarthur, debonair heir to a large country estate in County Meath, savagely bludgeoned to death Dublin nurse Bridie Gargan, in the act of stealing her car; killed Donal Dunne with a shotgun he ostensibly intended to purchase from the young farmer; & botched an armed robbery from a onetime acquaintance. Macarthur's one-man crime wave was part of his desperate plan to right his sinking financial ship, after he had squandered his share of the proceeds from the sale of his family's rural homestead.O'Connell (Notes from an Apocalypse) had been fascinated with Macarthur's bizarre story ever since he learned, as a child, that the killer had been apprehended in an apartment in the same suburban Dublin complex where his grandparents lived. After a handful of chance encounters on the stree
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- Author
- Mark O'Connell
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Published
- 2023
- Language
- EN
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- True Crime, Crime, Detective & Crime Fiction