Bryan Murphy

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• Apr-2015
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Sean Linehan brings over his dead boss to Hong Kong to open Asia’s finest sports venue. Captivated by the alluring Hypatia, Sean gets kidnapped by Maoist guerrillas. His government will not pay a ransom. Can he stay alive long enough to fulfil his ...

• Feb-2015
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A young man with a mission: to get himself killed, to subvert the established order in the name of the one true faith. What can come between him and the virgins he has been promised, if not the Angels in his heart? Dark humour lightens this tale of t...

• Oct-2014
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In this novella set in a dystopian near future, a young woman strives to break free of the weight of her grim past and avoid the bloody future that life has in store for her. Against the background of the death agonies of a pariah state, Daria Rigole...

• Oct-2013
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In the future Great Brighton, the administration has turned work into a luxury, which it doles out grudgingly. You take what you can of it, and outside of work, you take what you like. Madeleine takes Oratory. It sounds harmless, but in a society whe...

• Aug-2013
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In Houlihan’s Wake, a young Irishman goes to Playa Chisme, on the Pacific coast of Mexico, determined to die, and determined to do so in a beautiful setting. But can Houlihan’s death-wish do its worst in such a life-affirming place, where the lif...

• Jun-2013
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2032. An independent, racist state, carved out of northern Italy. Economic meltdown. A slide into bloody chaos. A man with a mission: to save the two children of his closest friends. At what risk? At what price? Will it be enough? And who is the myst...

• Jun-2013
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In this story set in the near future, Seán Linehan, an international football executive, travels to China with a mission to save a group of players and officials from the death by firing squad to which they have been condemned. After his experience ...

• May-2013
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The year is 2019. Sean Linehan, an international sports executive, journeys to Padania to vet the newly independent nation's bid to join the world football community. As usual, Linehan has his own agenda: girls, art and money. He finds a ready supply...

• Mar-2013
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A riveting tale of a not-so-distant future when who you are is what you eat. And loyalty depends on sharing, or refusing to share, blood. Literally. “Heresy” is darkly humorous, thought-provoking and short enough to be well worth the time you’l...

• Feb-2013
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A gripping, illusion-free look at people we license to kill. The year is 2040. A rare visitor to a hospice in Frascati, nestling in the hills above Rome, elicits macabre reminiscences from inmate Franco Tira, whose life changed when the day-to-day bu...

• Dec-2012
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In questo romanzo di idee ambientato in un prossimo futuro distopico, una giovane donna si batte disperatamente per liberarsi dal peso di un passato cupo e per sottrarsi al destino pieno di sangue che la vita le ha riservato. Sullo sfondo di uno stat...

In a nursing home in the hills above Rome, former spy Franco Tira saves an English fellow patient, Charlie Dunpy, from poison meant for himself. As a result they become friends. Charlie has dementia, but he also seems to possess unusual powers that F...