The Finner Faction

by Bernard Share

His goal is to pin down the sleight-of-hand (now you see them, now you don't) links between Noumea, Bundoran, Leitrim, General de Gaulle and the man with the revolver in Rue du Park Royale.... The answer unravels like a spy story by Borges out of San Antonio.

164 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 1990

About the author

A graduate of Trinity College Dublin, Bernard Share has taught English Literature in Australia and edited Books Ireland and CARA, the inflight magazine of Aer Lingus. He has written extensively on language and Irish social history and the third edition of his dictionary of slang and colloquial English in Ireland, Slanguage, was published recently. He lives in Co. Kildare.