A Star Called Henry

First edition. 8vo. Pp. [viii], 344. Black cloth boards, lettered in silver to spine; charcoal endpapers.

Signed by Author to title page.

Doyle's sixth novel. The making of an IRA terrorist, as the son of a one-legged whorehouse bouncer grows up to be one of Michael Collins' boys during the Easter Rising. The first volume in The Last Roundup trilogy, followed up by Oh, Play That Thing! (2004), and The Dead Republic (2010). Named one of the Best Books of the Year by the The New York Times Book Review, Boston Globe, Entertainment Weekly, Time Out New York, Publishers Weekly, Esquire, Newsday, Miami Herald, Seattle Times, and The Atlanta Journal Constitution. "Doyle at his best. His portrait of turn-of-the-century Dublin's dark side is masterful. There is a Dickensian richness to language and character". –The Times