by Brian Moore · Arrow Books Ltd · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099779209
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«Lies of Silence» is the suspense novel by Brian Moore, published by Arrow Books Ltd in paperback (256 pages, in English).
Set in Belfast during the Troubles, the novel follows Michael Dillon, a hotel manager whom the IRA orders to take part in a bomb attack: he must leave his car at a hotel or his wife will die. Between obedience and betrayal, it poses a moral dilemma about terrorism and extreme decisions.
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1990; originally published in London by Bloomsbury in 1990.
For readers of thriller and contemporary fiction interested in the Northern Irish conflict and moral dilemmas.
Brian Moore, was a novelist and screenwriter from Northern Ireland who emigrated to Canada and later lived in the United States. He was acclaimed for the descriptions in his novels of life in Northern Ireland during and after the Second World War, in particular his explorations of the inter-communal divisions of The Troubles, and has been described as "one of the few genuine masters of the contemporary novel". He was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1975 and the inaugural Sunday Express Book of the Year award in 1987, and he was shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times. Moore also wrote screenplays and several of his books were made into films.
