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The Lemur Book

John Banville’s credentials as a literary novelist are, of course, impeccable – but his track record in that field hardly guaranteed him success in the crime novels he decided to pen under the nom-de-plume of Benjamin Black. Despite some initial resistance, the first two Black novels, Christine Falls and The Silver Swan, gleaned a considerable following, with Black/Banville’s Dublin pathologist Quirke quickly established as an eccentric and individual protagonist. The 1950s settings are one of the most striking elements of the earlier books, and in the third novel The Lemur, a standalone thriller set in modern America and Ireland, the earlier strengths are once more to the fore -- but in a contemporary form.Irish-American billionaire William Mulholland has a past in intelligence, but his chief preoccupation has become the organisation he operates with his daughter Louise, the Mulholland Trust. Realising that a forthcoming biography is planning hatchet job on him, Mulholland plans a counter-attack by commissioning the once-influential journalist John Glass (his daughter’s husband) to pen the official biography - which will, inevitably, be far more sympathetic. The researcher employed by Glass, the youthful Dylan Riley, is the eponymous ’lemur’, so called because of his resemblance to that rodent. But Riley begins to uncover more than he should, and attempts blackmail. He is discovered dead.The vividness of The Lemur is in its rich and loamy panoply of modern Ireland, both similar to and very different from the country that so many of its citizens moved to, the United States. Very different from the earlier Black books, but distinctive and ingenious. --Barry ForshawRead More

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    William 'Big Bill' Mulholland is an Irish-American electronics billionaire. An ex-CIA operative he now heads up the Mulholland Trust with the help of his daughter Louise. When Mulholland gets wind of a hostile biography planned by journalist Wilson Cleaver he commissions his daughter's husband John Glass to pen the official line.

  • Blackwell

    Commissioned as a high profile serial by the New York Times Magazine, The Lemur is a stylish new thriller from a rising star of literary crime 'The Lemur has pace and bravado; the writing is sharp and the timing flawless while the prose...

  • 0330456741
  • 9780330456746
  • Benjamin Black
  • 2 October 2009
  • Picador
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 240
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