• Paperback
• Condition: Very Good
• 393 pages
• Fiction: Thriller, Literary

Dublin 1994.

One of the hottest summers since records began. Billy Sweeney, a middle-aged satellite dish salesman, is about to commit murder.

Following a violent robbery at her workplace, his youngest daughter Maeve lies unconscious. Devastated by the consequences of that terrible event, failed by the system and maddened by guilt, his very sanity seems to be slipping away - until fate takes a strange turn, plunging him into a blood-curdling act of vengeance.

Alone, obsessed and wandering the city by night, he finds himself stalking a young man through the streets of a seaside suburb, gathering information on his movements, building a mental picture of an enemy he has never met and ultimately planning the perfect crime. But when Sweeney's plans go spectacularly wrong, the results are terrifying, often bleakly hilarious and in the end unforgettably chilling.

Part black-comic confession, part psychological thriller, at heart a wistful recollection of a passionate and once tender love affair, The Salesman builds powerfully into the story of a life changed for ever by the events of a few short weeks. As that sweltering summer finally comes to an end, Billy Sweeney discovers the shattering truth of an old motto: be careful what you wish for. It might just come true.