Review
`The Rising continues Brian McGilloway's excellent run of novels featuring Benjamin Devlin, the Irish Garda inspector...Devlin bucks the crime-fiction trend by being just a good ordinary cop, a sympathetic family man without too many hang-ups or foibles. The novel is no worse off for that.'
--The Times
'Sure to cement McGilloway's reputation in the annals of crime writing.' --CrimeSquad
'McGilloway affirms his status as one of the most exciting crime writers around.'
--Sunday Tribune
`Finding his stride, Garda Inspector Benedict Devlin run up against a ruthless land of former paramilitaries turned vigilantes calling themselves The Rising. But then one too many drug dealers are put out of action and a crisis hits Devlin's personal life.' --Daily Mirror
'Brian McGilloway is on top form with his fourth Benedict Devlin novel, THE RISING...The classic police procedural - with a believable and satisfyingly convoluted plot that will demand your full attention, with clues and misdirection aplenty.' --Eurocrime
`A relief to come upon a police thriller which is told in a bare yet skilful way...Garda investigation and forensics techniques are well researched and written, but not bludgeoned home...McGilloway has a healthy respect for his readers' intelligence.'
--Book of the Week, Irish Times
'This book should carry a health warning for insomniacs -- once taken up, it is impossible to put down. The reader certainly will not fall asleep as the cunningly constructed narrative belts along.' --Irish Independent
'McGilloway improves with every novel, and the latest Inspector Devlin - Morse without the affectations, basically - is fast becoming an annual must-read.' --Sunday Independent
'Brian McGilloway is putting together an excellent series of crime novels that are the equal of anything out there in Britain and Ireland at present. This is an excellent addition, a tense and emotional story that boils gently towards a climax that matches the sophistication of the plot and McGilloway's unusually considered approach.'
--materialwitness.com
'I really loved the plotting in this novel - confident, convoluted and challenging. Brian McGilloway is great at keeping so many balls in the air that even an experienced crime-fiction reader such as me had plenty of surprises in store.'
--eurocrime.co.uk
'The Rising is well-written novel with a solid plot, shot through with a complex web of interpersonal conflicts, political tensions and moral compromises.' --www.culturenorthernireland.org
'McGilloway's most accomplished, most gripping, and most sophisticated novel yet.' --Tangled Web
'The fourth in McGilloway's superlative series sees Devlin face his biggest conflict yet between job, loyalty, family and vendetta.' --Take a Break's Fiction Feast
'The Rising is a book for fans of all varieties of crime fiction: it blurs boundaries between genres as much as between countries and jurisdictions and cultures. The ambiguities that remain at the end are simply a reflection of McGilloway's overall attention to the daily realities (both dramatic and undramatic) that we will recognize as much from our own lives as from the crime columns of the daily paper.' --internationalnoir
--The Times
'Sure to cement McGilloway's reputation in the annals of crime writing.' --CrimeSquad
'McGilloway affirms his status as one of the most exciting crime writers around.'
--Sunday Tribune
`Finding his stride, Garda Inspector Benedict Devlin run up against a ruthless land of former paramilitaries turned vigilantes calling themselves The Rising. But then one too many drug dealers are put out of action and a crisis hits Devlin's personal life.' --Daily Mirror
'Brian McGilloway is on top form with his fourth Benedict Devlin novel, THE RISING...The classic police procedural - with a believable and satisfyingly convoluted plot that will demand your full attention, with clues and misdirection aplenty.' --Eurocrime
`A relief to come upon a police thriller which is told in a bare yet skilful way...Garda investigation and forensics techniques are well researched and written, but not bludgeoned home...McGilloway has a healthy respect for his readers' intelligence.'
--Book of the Week, Irish Times
'This book should carry a health warning for insomniacs -- once taken up, it is impossible to put down. The reader certainly will not fall asleep as the cunningly constructed narrative belts along.' --Irish Independent
'McGilloway improves with every novel, and the latest Inspector Devlin - Morse without the affectations, basically - is fast becoming an annual must-read.' --Sunday Independent
'Brian McGilloway is putting together an excellent series of crime novels that are the equal of anything out there in Britain and Ireland at present. This is an excellent addition, a tense and emotional story that boils gently towards a climax that matches the sophistication of the plot and McGilloway's unusually considered approach.'
--materialwitness.com
'I really loved the plotting in this novel - confident, convoluted and challenging. Brian McGilloway is great at keeping so many balls in the air that even an experienced crime-fiction reader such as me had plenty of surprises in store.'
--eurocrime.co.uk
'The Rising is well-written novel with a solid plot, shot through with a complex web of interpersonal conflicts, political tensions and moral compromises.' --www.culturenorthernireland.org
'McGilloway's most accomplished, most gripping, and most sophisticated novel yet.' --Tangled Web
'The fourth in McGilloway's superlative series sees Devlin face his biggest conflict yet between job, loyalty, family and vendetta.' --Take a Break's Fiction Feast
'The Rising is a book for fans of all varieties of crime fiction: it blurs boundaries between genres as much as between countries and jurisdictions and cultures. The ambiguities that remain at the end are simply a reflection of McGilloway's overall attention to the daily realities (both dramatic and undramatic) that we will recognize as much from our own lives as from the crime columns of the daily paper.' --internationalnoir
Product Description
When Garda Inspector Benedict Devlin is summoned to a burning barn, he finds inside the charred remains of a man who is quickly identified as a local drug dealer, Martin Kielty. It soon becomes clear that Kielty's death was no accident, and suspicion falls on a local vigilante group. Former paramilitaries, the men call themselves The Rising. Meanwhile, a former colleague's teenage son has gone missing during a seaside camping trip. Devlin is relieved when the boy's mother, Caroline Williams, receives a text message from her son's phone, and so when a body is reported, washed up on a nearby beach, the inspector is baffled. When another drug dealer is killed, Devlin realises that the spate of deaths is more complex than mere vigilantism. But just as it seems he is close to understanding the case, a personal crisis will strike at the heart of Ben's own family, and he will be forced to confront the compromises his career has forced upon him. With his fourth novel, McGilloway announces himself as one of the most exciting crime novelists around: gripping, heartbreaking and always surprising, The Rising is a tour de force – McGilloway's most personal novel so far.
