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The Hunter is the second book in the Cal Hooper series by award-winning Irish author, Tana French. After some two years fixing up his dilapidated house near Ardnakelty in the west of Ireland, ex-Chicago cop, Cal Hooper is settling in, happy with the contrast to city life: “being boring is among Cal’s main goals.
French masterfully excavates the secrets we keep for love or revenge and explores the lengths we go to protect our family, be it blood or chosen.” — CrimeReads “Tana French's immersive, thought-provoking The Hunter revels in the quiet moments, but knows true peace is elusive.”
It’s a blazing summer when two men arrive in a small village in the West of Ireland. One of them is coming home. Both of them are coming to get rich. One of them is coming to die. Cal Hooper took early retirement from Chicago PD and moved to rural Ireland looking for peace.
The Hunter by Tana French is a taut crime novel about a smooth-talking, disreputable man, Johnny Reddy, who comes back into his small mountain town of Ardnakelty with big plans and a big idea to make himself and everyone else rich.
In “The Hunter,” Cal, two years older, is still living in Ardnakelty. By now, rural Ireland has lost its romantic charm, but he has found actual romance with a local woman, Lena, and developed...
Cal Hooper fled a failing marriage, quit his exhausting job with the Chicago Police Department, and settled down in Ardnakelty, a fictional village nestled in the mountains of western Ireland, hoping to find some peace. But in Tana French’s “The Searcher” (2020), he discovered that Ardnakelty isn’t a welcoming place.
For her next novel, Tana French is returning to the west of Ireland. French, known for her Dublin Murder Squad mystery series, traded in the grit of the police procedural for a seemingly...
“May be French’s best novel yet. . . . The Hunter delivers a taut, intelligent examination of loyalty, instinct, and community. French masterfully excavates the secrets we keep for love or revenge and explores the lengths we go to protect our family, be it blood or chosen.” —CrimeReads.
— New York Post “May be French’s best novel yet. . . . The Hunter delivers a taut, intelligent examination of loyalty, instinct, and community. French masterfully excavates the secrets we keep for love or revenge and explores the lengths we go to protect our family, be it blood or chosen.”
In French’s newest novel, The Hunter, Cal Hooper is back and again drawn, against his instincts and mine, into a scheme put on by Ardnakelty’s lads.