Description
In a colorful yet gritty 1970s Boston, Justine, a mysterious American businesswoman, and her wise-cracking associate Ord, arrange a black-market weapons deal in a deserted warehouse between IRA arms buyer Chris and shifty South African gun runner Vernon. What starts as a polite if uneasy exchange soon goes south when tensions escalate and shots are fired, quickly leading to a full-on Battle Royale where it's every man (and woman) for themselves.
Language
Original language
English
Publication
(2017)
Library's review
A simple, but engrossing and memorable, crime thriller with healthy helpings of black comedy, taking place almost entirely at the scene of an illegal arms deal in 1978, where something is about to go terribly wrong...