OPERATION BLACK HORSE

Awards & Accolades Likes 18 Our Verdict GET IT Kirkus Prizefinalist by Paul Lynch ‧ RELEASE DATE: Dec. 5, 2023 Captivating, frightening, and a singular achievement. Awards & Accolades Likes 18 Our Verdict GET IT Kirkus Prizefinalist As Ireland devolves into a brutal police state, one woman tries to preserve her family in this stark fable. For Eilish Stack, a molecular biologist living with her husband and four children in Dublin, life changes all at once and then slowly worsens beyond imagining. Two men appear at her door one night, agents of the new secret police, seeking her husband, Larry, a union official. Soon he is detained under the Emergency Powers Act recently pushed through by the new ruling party, and she cannot contact him. Eilish sees things shifting at work to those backing the ruling party. The state takes control of the press, the judiciary. Her oldest son receives a summons to military duty for the regime, and she tries to send him to Northern Ireland. He elects to join the rebel forces and soon she cannot contact him, either. His name and address appear in a newspaper ad listing people dodging military service. Eilish is coping with her father’s growing de...