Joseph O'Neill

[David Morris]

Thanks.  Reliable recommendations are hard to find.

On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 5:14 PM,  <malignd at aol.com> wrote:
> Had this friend Sam back in the seventies and eighties in NY and we were
> both GR fans (and avid readers), the only ones (GR fans) in the broad circle
> of friends we travelled in.  Anyway, he moved away, we fell out of touch,
> and I haven't heard from him since the late 90s.
>
> Recently, out of nowhere, he emailed me.  It said:
>
> by joseph o'neill Blood-dark Track.
> hope you get this note. that book is right on the button for you.
> sam
>
> And he was right.  Highly recommended. A memoir/detective story built around
> discovering that each of his grandfathers -- one Irish one Turkish -- was
> imprisoned during WWII, and running down the stories from often reluctant
> people in the know..  O'Neill was a barrister, is very smart and the book's
> great.  He's also the author of Netherlan, a novel, and also very good.