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Review by Festus -- The Dark Web Murders by Brian O'Hare
[Following is a volunteer review of "The Dark Web Murders" by Brian O'Hare.]
The Dark Web Murders by Brian O'Hare. Review by Festus
In this thirty-nine chapter prose fiction, Hare meticulously provides a crystal picture of an Irish society bedeviled by an institutionalized underworld, but not without a forceful, resilient and resolute security apparatus to reckon with.
Systematic crime and fraternity is a global endemic phenomenon that never misses the attention of famous writers. It is in this light that Hare’s audience find in every Puzo’s Don Corelone, Trevor Neeson, an appellate court judge who doubles as the architect and visioner of the notorious Fulfillment for the Enlightened Club, and in every Chase’s Tom Lepski, Chief Inspector sheeham as antagonists and protagonists of national aspirations.
The Dark Web Murders by Brian O'Hare opens with the murder of an inmate, Kelvin Lane in Magillian Prison held on a trumped-up charge of manslaughter by a vicious convict called McStravick. Judge Neeson is the next on the murder line by a supposedly blackmailer on his mission to retrieve an incriminating material in exchange for a monetary inducement. Investigation into Neeson’s death results in exposing his unsavoury activities, first as a founder of the infamous Fulfillment for the Enlightened Club, with membership accessible only to aristocratic class such as: legal luminaries, erudite scholars, business tycoons, entertainment icons, scions of multinationals, civil service bureaucrats, construction technocrats, gambling merchants, property owners, political big wigs among others . Not a few conspiracy theories are flaunted in connection with Neeson’s murder leading to a very stringent scrutiny of the club members and other likely culprits within the reach of Irish security network in collaboration with the Interpol. More murders and kidnappings follow in quick successions in order to frustrate the investigation.
From this ugly beginning, and though the length and breadth of the work, readers have to endure the pangs of the crime-infected society, embroiled in impurity of unimaginable proportion, where justice is negotiated, bought and sold, rape, child sex, personalized pornography, gangterism, murder, terrorism, sex trafficking, prostitution and the likes are norms than exceptions.
In this thrilling fictional piece, Hare simply takes stock of the wind of anarchy that has swept through his society and further exposes the vulnerability of the society that incubates the world of the underworld. A peep into the Dark Web where murders show off their trades and celebrate their successes is a pointer. If the Dark Web is an internet site created in Hell, the bigger devil is the notorious Fulfillment for the Enlightened Club, which even in liberal sense can be described as a fellowship of evil merchants who treat their country like a conquered territory and fellow citizens like Prisoners of War, governed by powerful and ruthless sadists. It can therefore be safe to conclude by any discernible reader that, lurking behind the glamours and the civilized surface of the European landscape are clouds devoid of silver linings.
The author in many instances uses suspense optimally in order to retain the curiosity and attention of the readers, prominent among them is the murder of Neeson, where readers have almost suffocated in endless suspense before the unveiling of the murder at the end of the novel. Expectedly, the book is technically error – free being authored by a native speaker. From the forgoing, I have no restraint in awarding 4 out 4 stars to the book and recommend it to interested individuals or researchers on sociology of Irish urban life and by extension, the entire British Isles.
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The Dark Web Murders
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The Dark Web Murders by Brian O'Hare. Review by Festus
In this thirty-nine chapter prose fiction, Hare meticulously provides a crystal picture of an Irish society bedeviled by an institutionalized underworld, but not without a forceful, resilient and resolute security apparatus to reckon with.
Systematic crime and fraternity is a global endemic phenomenon that never misses the attention of famous writers. It is in this light that Hare’s audience find in every Puzo’s Don Corelone, Trevor Neeson, an appellate court judge who doubles as the architect and visioner of the notorious Fulfillment for the Enlightened Club, and in every Chase’s Tom Lepski, Chief Inspector sheeham as antagonists and protagonists of national aspirations.
The Dark Web Murders by Brian O'Hare opens with the murder of an inmate, Kelvin Lane in Magillian Prison held on a trumped-up charge of manslaughter by a vicious convict called McStravick. Judge Neeson is the next on the murder line by a supposedly blackmailer on his mission to retrieve an incriminating material in exchange for a monetary inducement. Investigation into Neeson’s death results in exposing his unsavoury activities, first as a founder of the infamous Fulfillment for the Enlightened Club, with membership accessible only to aristocratic class such as: legal luminaries, erudite scholars, business tycoons, entertainment icons, scions of multinationals, civil service bureaucrats, construction technocrats, gambling merchants, property owners, political big wigs among others . Not a few conspiracy theories are flaunted in connection with Neeson’s murder leading to a very stringent scrutiny of the club members and other likely culprits within the reach of Irish security network in collaboration with the Interpol. More murders and kidnappings follow in quick successions in order to frustrate the investigation.
From this ugly beginning, and though the length and breadth of the work, readers have to endure the pangs of the crime-infected society, embroiled in impurity of unimaginable proportion, where justice is negotiated, bought and sold, rape, child sex, personalized pornography, gangterism, murder, terrorism, sex trafficking, prostitution and the likes are norms than exceptions.
In this thrilling fictional piece, Hare simply takes stock of the wind of anarchy that has swept through his society and further exposes the vulnerability of the society that incubates the world of the underworld. A peep into the Dark Web where murders show off their trades and celebrate their successes is a pointer. If the Dark Web is an internet site created in Hell, the bigger devil is the notorious Fulfillment for the Enlightened Club, which even in liberal sense can be described as a fellowship of evil merchants who treat their country like a conquered territory and fellow citizens like Prisoners of War, governed by powerful and ruthless sadists. It can therefore be safe to conclude by any discernible reader that, lurking behind the glamours and the civilized surface of the European landscape are clouds devoid of silver linings.
The author in many instances uses suspense optimally in order to retain the curiosity and attention of the readers, prominent among them is the murder of Neeson, where readers have almost suffocated in endless suspense before the unveiling of the murder at the end of the novel. Expectedly, the book is technically error – free being authored by a native speaker. From the forgoing, I have no restraint in awarding 4 out 4 stars to the book and recommend it to interested individuals or researchers on sociology of Irish urban life and by extension, the entire British Isles.
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The Dark Web Murders
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