An Honest Life

An Honest Life is a powerful and stirring crime novel with a dark sense of humour

that reveals the redemptive power of adversity.

JF Conroy is the author of An Honest Life, a 'thrilling crime novel with a beating heart'.

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Ruthless crime lord Declan Hennessy has only one ambition; to rule Dublin’s northside. Once he is in control of the drug trade, he can take his foot off the pedal and enjoy the empire he has built for his family.

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Incompetent amateur Martin Lynch has charm and no real malice. At heart an honest man, he struggles to provide for his family as a result of bad debts and worse luck.

Declan and Martin despise each other but over the past two decades, their families’ lives have become intertwined in unsettling ways. 

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If they cannot find a way to unite, they will lose everything.