Ordinary decent criminals : a novel
(Playaway)

Title from Playaway label.

"Previously published as The Bleeding Heart"--container.

"HD."

"LIGHT."

"Harper Audio."

Release date supplied by publisher.

Previously released by HarperCollins Publishers, ?2015.

Issued on Playaway, a dedicated audio media player.

One set of earbuds and one AAA battery required for listening.

Performed by Melanie MacHugh.

For ten years, Estrin Lancaster has fled Philadelphia. From the Philippines to Berlin, she's been a traveller without a destination, an expatriate without a motherland. In each of the cities Estrin favors, she manages an apartment, a job, a lover, and never tarries past the first signs of ennui. Her latest destination is Belfast, in Northern Ireland. After twenty years of ritualized violence, this city, too, is exhausted--a town in which if one more bomb explodes in the city center, old ladies blow the dust off their treacle cakes and count their change. Here the lanky and spiteful Farrell O'Phelan, former purveyor of his own bomb-disposal service, technically Catholic but everyone's aggravation, wrangles through the maze of factions in the North by despising every side. Farrell's affair with the curious Estrin is nonetheless a meeting of two loners; like hers, Farrell's marathoning around the planet has become like running in place. In deadlocked Northern Ireland, it has become harder and harder to believe that anything is happening at all.