Bloodland: A Novel Audiobook

Quotes

• “Ripped from tomorrow's headlines, Bloodland is irresistible....Exhilarating.

  — Val McDermid

• Glynn plays out these grand themes--the global economic crisis, America's battle with China for dominance in Africa, the human costs of illegal mining--on a very personal scale, through a group of deeply flawed but compelling characters.

  — NPR

• Glynn spins a seamless web of conspiracy spanning three continents....I read Bloodland twice, the second time for the rare pleasure of watching a first-rate investigative reporter--and novelist--at work.

  — The Daily Beast

• Stunningly intricate...like an amped-up twenty-first-century version of Dashiell Hammett's The Glass Key.

  — Los Angeles Review of Books

• A classic paranoid thriller… In a year of global economic disasters, scandalous political mismanagement and the attempted occupation of various strategic interests by ‘the 99%,' Bloodland is a very timely novel indeed.

  — Declan Burke, January Magazine (A Best Book of the Year)

• Imagine a first-rate investigative reporter digging into global corruption and turning what he learns into fast-paced fiction, and you have Irish noir star Glynn.

  — Jane Ciabattari, BBC.com (Crime Writers to Read Now)

• Powerfully engaging...A thriller has to thrill. And Bloodland, an intelligent, often thrilling book, delivers.

  — The Richmond Times-Dispatch

• Scarily plausible in a way that eludes most thriller writers, with an alarmingly authentic cast of control freaks and loose cannons…I've not read such a multilayered, expertly plotted portrayal of arrogance, greed, and hubris in a long time. [There are] echoes of John le Carré, 24, and James Ellroy here, but Glynn's talent is all his own, and his ability to ratchet up the tension is eye-popping.

  — The Guardian (London)

• A tightly woven picture of global corporate influence and corruption. Glynn's work has drawn comparisons to John le Carré… [which] usefully illuminates Bloodland's bold, pointed topicality… From the inauspicious beginnings of a dead reality TV star, Glynn's great novel finds an impressive, surprising scope.

  — The Portland Mercury

• A cracking conspiracy thriller worthy of le Carré, set in the dark heart of the Congo, Ireland, and New York.

  — Irish Independent (Dublin)

• Gripping…Glynn builds up the tension skillfully….He seems at home writing about intrigue on both sides of the Atlantic…[and] utterly at ease whether writing about troubled Dublin businessmen, former private military contractors with post-traumatic stress disorder, bitter politicians, or high-flying corporate masters of the universe….But while Bloodland makes some serious points, it never forgets that a good thriller is there to entertain the reader as well as to make [one] think---and this is a very entertaining book.

  — The Irish Times (Dublin)

• Alan Glynn has created enough twists and thrills to keep readers up late--even without resorting to illegal and dangerous substances.

  — The New York Times Book Review on Limitless

• A compulsive chemical thriller.

  — San Francisco Chronicle on Limitless

• Timely, topical, and thrilling.

  — John Connolly on Winterland

• A terrific read . . . completely involving.

  — George Pelecanos on Winterland

• Winterland sets a dramatically high benchmark for emerald noir. With all the operatic inevitability of Greek tragedy, it anatomises what greed has done to Ireland. A resonant, memorable, and uncomfortable read.

  — Val McDermid on Winterland

• A heavyweight, grow-up thriller . . . Emotionally truthful, with a plausible cast, and told in wonderfully fluent prose, Winterland is a gripping tale of a world of greed and secrets.

  — The Guardian (London) on Winterland