Knife’s Edge

About the book

Belfast, 1981. A city under surveillance. A war fought in whispers. A list of names that could decide who lives long enough to tell the truth.

Daniel Byrne can read a lie in a heartbeat. It is the gift that makes him useful to the IRA Internal Security Unit, and dangerous to everyone else. The Provos use him to hunt informers. The British want to turn him. But when two children die in a fire Daniel helped set in motion, guilt fractures the certainty that once kept him obedient.

Then Special Branch gives him a choice: help stop what is coming, or watch his family be destroyed with him.

As Belfast closes in, Daniel’s wife Aoife becomes involved in a hidden network of priests, couriers and watchers trying to keep families alive while men on every side reshape the truth to suit the war. At the centre of it all is a single list of names, a document dangerous enough to change the balance of power across the city.

Dark, tense and morally charged, Knife’s Edge is a standalone thriller about loyalty, coercion and the brutal cost of knowing when someone is lying.