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Book Synopsis**SOLDIER SAILOR - THE NEW NOVEL BY CLAIRE KILROY - IS AVAILABLE NOW**
Smart, funny and stylish.' JOHN BANVILLE
Kilroy's darkly comic, clever book keeps the reader engrossed and aghast.' Independent
There was a crooked man and he walked a crooked mile
He made a crooked deal and he blew a crooked pile
He dug a crooked hole
And he sank the crooked isle
And they all went to hell in a stew of crooked bile.
The Devil I Know is a thrilling novel of greed and hubris, set against the backdrop of a brewing international debt crisis. Told by Tristram, in the form of a mysterious testimony, it recounts his return home after a self-imposed exile only to find himself trapped as a middle man played on both sides - by a grotesque builder he''s known since childhood on the one hand, and a shadowy businessman he''s never met on the other. Caught between them, as an overblown property dev
