'A smart and pacy debut that details a historical period that deserves further exploration' Irish Times 'A cracker read about morality and ethics in a time of conflict . . . A really accessible way of getting into complex stuff on nation-building and justice' Claire Hanna, MP for Belfast South 'The Undiscovered Country is a book characterised from first page to last by a dialogue at once McQuade’s own and reminiscent of the late Robert B. Parker. One is struck also by its mordant wit and its fierce intelligence as it follows the travails of its main characters, ordinary people confronting a horror that they would rather turn away from but can’t' Martin W. Sandler, National Book Award-winning author and historian