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The End of the Hunt
  • Published: 5 April 2016
  • ISBN: 9781590179307
  • Imprint: RH US eBook Adult
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 628

The End of the Hunt

  • Thomas Flanagan
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Volume 3 of Thomas Flanagan’s Irish History Trilogy

This third volume of Thomas Flanagan’s best-selling Irish-history trilogy (which begins with The Year of the French and continues with The Tenants of Time) brings to epic life the events of the Irish War of Independence. Flanagan’s gaze is both world historical and intimate as he tells the story of Janice Nugent, a recent war widow who strikes up a romance with Christopher Blake, a historian and propagandist for the IRA; of Patrick Prentiss, discharged from the British army after losing an arm in World War I to find Dublin engulfed in civil turmoil; of a Virgil-toting gunman named Frank Lacy; and of a panorama of meticulously drawn historical figures on both sides of the conflict, from Winston Churchill and Lloyd George to Eamon de Valera and Michael Collins. While violence escalates and losses mount, the once-mighty British Empire shows signs of strain and Irish independence finally glimmers on the horizon.
  • Published: 5 April 2016
  • ISBN: 9781590179307
  • Imprint: RH US eBook Adult
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 628
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Praise for The End of the Hunt

"The mood of uncertainty, the sense of betrayal, jubilation over what's been achieved and frustration at the incompleteness of the deal: all this is splendidly conveyed. The End of the Hunt offers history with its more exalted assumptions left intact; ... [it] accommodates all the notions of heroic commitment, indomitable Irishness and the rest of it, guaranteed to hold the attention and keep the spirits up." -Patricia Craig, The Times Literary Supplement

"Densely packed and relentlessly thorough...Deftly described, with enough details to satisfy those who prefer their history lightly spritzed with fiction." -Kirkus Reviews

"Few historical novels about any time and place are as rich and rewarding as this one." -Library Journal

"[A] rich, stimulating novel." -People

"This splendid novel, last of a trilogy, brings Ireland's tragic history down to the civil war of the 1920's. Analogies will be drawn with the present." -New York Times Book Review, "Notable Books of the Year: 1994"

"[Flanagan's trilogy] bridge[s] both ocean and centuries with an insight and an artistry that conceal the stone-masonry of his research with the skill of a stuccadore." -Tim Pat Coogan, Wherever Green is Worn: The Story of the Irish Diaspora