Rebel Streets: A Novel of the Irish Troubles - Softcover

"Tom Molloy's gripping novel puts readers in the hands, hearts, and minds of those who lived and died by the life-and-death code of The Troubles in Northern Ireland. "Rebel Streets" recreates that time in a story that, like the sectarian war itself, is by turns poignant, brutal, and inevitably tragic. I read it in one hold-your-breath sitting." --Gerry Boyle, author of "Port City Black and White"

"Rebel Streets begins with a harrowing interrogation scene that binds two men together--one a member of the IRA and the other a detective with the RUC (Royal Ulster Constabulary)--in an unholy alliance that wreaks havoc in the streets and homes of Belfast. Molloy's Ireland is already in our hearts, and his characters will also find a place there as they move toward the powerful and closing pages of this exhilarating and devastating novel." --Pamela Painter, author of "Wouldn't You Like to Know"

Praise for Tom Molloy's "The Green Line"

"Molloy's style is impressive in its tense self-control, conveying impacted emotion with a bare minimum of words. . . . The characters are vividly drawn, the whole thing is painfully realistic, and Tom Molloy has made an impressive debut."--"Publishers Weekly"

Set in Northern Ireland, Rebel Streets takes an unblinking look at what happens when ordinary people are thrust into a world of violence, extremism, and betrayal?where options are few and consequences severe. Without resorting to caricature or stereotypes, Tom Molloy invites the reader back to a time of religious violence known as the Troubles.