Night Boat to Tangier; A Novel (1969)

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One of The New York Times Book Review' s 10 Best Books of 2019 One of The New York Times Book Review 's 100 Notable Books of 2019 One of The New York Times Critics' Top Books of 2019 One of NPR's Best Books of the Year Longlisted for The Booker Prize From the acclaimed author of the international sensations City of Bohane and Beatlebone, a striking and gorgeous new novel of two aging criminals at the tail ends of their damage-filled careers. A superbly melancholic melody of a novel full of beautiful phrases and terrible men. In the dark waiting room of the ferry terminal in the sketchy Spanish port of Algeciras, two aging Irishmen — Maurice Hearne and Charlie Redmond, longtime partners in the lucrative and dangerous enterprise of smuggling drugs — sit at night, none too patiently. It is October 23, 2018, and they are expecting Maurice's estranged daughter, Dilly, to either arrive on