Ian McGuire

«Una novela que nos lleva hasta los límites de la carne y la sangre. Absolutamente convincente, brillante, viva, e insidiosamente ingeniosa.La sangre heladaes un logro sorprendente.»Martin AmisHe aqu

Truly terrific' Richard Ford'Dickens for the twenty-first century' Roddy Doyle'A powerful, gripping tale' Sunday TimesA man hanging on by a thread.A city about to snap. From the acclaimed author of The North Water comes an epic story of revenge and obsession. Manchester, 1867 Two men, haunted by their pasts.Driven by the need for justice. Blood begets blood.In a fight for life and legacy. Stephen Doyle arrives in Manchester from New York. He is an Irish-American veteran of the Civil War and a member of the Fenians, a secret society intent on ending British rule in Ireland, by any means necessary. Now he has come to seek vengeance. James O'Connor has fled grief and drink in Dublin for a sober start in Manchester as Head Constable. His mission is to discover and thwart the Fenians plans. When his long-lost nephew arrives on his doorstep, he never could have foreseen how this would imperil his fragile new life or how his and Doyle's fates would come to be intertwined. The rebels will be hanged at dawn, and their brotherhood is already plotting revenge.

Patrick Sumner, un ancien chirurgien de l'armée britannique traînant une mauvaise réputation, n'a pas de meilleure option que d'embarquer sur le Volunteer, un baleinier du Yorkshire en route pour les

Patrick Sumner retorna para casa depois de viver os horrores da Guerra dos Sipaios, na Índia. Sem perspectivas, embarca em um navio baleeiro no qual também viaja um arpoador vil com quem ele logo entra em coliso. Para piorar, o capito do navio quer colocar em pratica um plano que envolve muito mais do que caçar. A medida que a bestialidade humana e a força da natureza ditam as reviravoltas desta jornada, Sumner precisara fazer o impensavel para sobreviver.

LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016 'A tour de force' Hilary Mantel 'Riveting and darkly brilliant' Colm Toibin A ship sets sail with a killer on-board ...1859. A man joins a whaling ship bound for the Arctic Circle. Having left the services, his reputation in tatters, Patrick Sumner has little option but to accept the position of ship's surgeon on this ill-fated voyage. But when, deep into the journey, a boy is discovered brutally killed, Sumner finds himself becoming a reluctant detective. Soon he will face an evil even greater than that he had encountered at the siege of Delhi, in the shape of Henry Drax: harpooner, murderer, monster. As the true purpose of the ship's expedition becomes clear and despair descends upon the crew, the confrontation between Sumner and Drax will play out in the terrible darkness of the Arctic winter ...'Behold: one of the finest books of the year' Independent

Un magistral e inquietante noir histórico que parte del oscuro episodioreal de los llamados "Mártires de Mánchester".Stephen Doyle, un veterano irlandes-estadounidense de la Guerra Civil, llega a Mánchester conased de sangre. Se ha unido a los Fenianos, una sociedad secreta que intenta acabar por todos losamedios con el dominio britanico en Irlanda. Tras los pasos de esta sociedad va el jefe de policiaaJames OConnor, cuya mision consiste en descubrir y frustrar sus planes. Esta apasionante novelaasobre la guerra clandestina por la independencia de Irlanda condensa la historia de dos hombres perseguidos por su pasado e impulsados por la necesidad de justicia y venganza.

Uno de los 10 mejores libros del 2016 según The New York Times. Finalista del Man Booker Prize 2016. Uno de los mejores libros del 2016 según Amazon.comUno de los 10 mejores libros del 2016 según The New York Times.Finalista del Man Booker Prize 2016.Uno de los mejores libros del 2016 segun Amazon.comHe aqui el hombre: un hombre hediondo, borracho, brutalmente sanguinario.Henry Drax es el principal arponero delVolunteer, un barco ballenero que zarpa desde Yorkshire para dirigirse a las ricas aguas de caza del Circulo Polar Artico. A bordo del barco esta el joven e inexperto Patrick Sumner; un cirujano y antiguo miembro del ejercito que no tiene otra alternativa que embarcarse como medico en lo que sera un violento, sucio y nefasto viaje. En su epoca como soldado en la India, durante el asedio de Delhi, Sumner llego a creer que habia experimentado en su totalidad las profundidades del mal, y que el viaje en este ballenero podia ser el salvoconducto hacia una vida en libertad. Lo que no sabe Sumner es que en el barco ballenero con el que cruzan el invierno artico se esconde un sangriento asesino.La sangre heladaexplora la esencia del ser humano cuando se ve arrojado a situaciones in extremis en un amb...

A 19th-century whaling ship sets sail for the Arctic with a killer aboard in this dark, sharp and highly original tale that grips like a thriller. Behold the man: stinking, drunk, brutal and bloodthirsty, Henry Drax is a harpooner on the Volunteer, a Yorkshire whaling ship bound for the hunting waters of the Arctic Circle. Also aboard for the first time is Patrick Sumner, an ex-army surgeon with a shattered reputation, no money and no better option than to embark as ship's medic on this violent, filthy, ill-fated voyage. In India during the Siege of Delhi, Sumner thought he had experienced the depths to which a man can stoop and imagined he'd find respite on the Volunteer, but now, trapped in the wooden belly of the ship with Drax, he encounters pure evil and is forced to act. As the true purposes of the expedition become clear, the confrontation between the two men plays out in the freezing darkness of an Arctic winter.

Un magistral e inquietante noir histórico que parte del oscuro episodioreal de los llamados «Mártires de Mánchester».Stephen Doyle, un veterano irlandés-estadounidense de la Guerra Civil, llega a Mán