American Skin

Stephen Blake is a good man blown in bad directions. He and girlfriend Siobhan, best friend Tommy, IRA terrorist Stapleton, and a particularly American sort of psychopath named Dade, are all on a collision course somewhere between the dive bars of New York and the pitiless desert of the Southwest. This is the long-awaited American novel by Ken Bruen, the hard-boiled master of Irish noir.

In this long-awaited American novel by Bruen--the hard-boiled master of Irish noir--Stephen Blake, his girlfriend Siobhan, IRA terrorist Stapleton, and a psychopath named Dade are all on a collision course somewhere between the dive bars of New York and the pitiless desert of the Southwest.