The Good People and the Bad - by Shea Leitrim (Paperback)

About the Book

Either Eddie O'Kane has lost his 15-year-old mind or he has somehow come back in time. He knows more than he should: how to rob drug gangs, seduce female classmates, elude principals, parents, and police.

Book Synopsis

The Good People and the Bad: The Foul and Faustian Misdeeds of Oedipus O'Kane Far, Far From His Native Connaught

Waste no prayers on Eddie O'Kane. Either he's lost his 15-year-old mind or he has somehow come back in time from his own death, years in the future. Certainly he knows more than his mundane Catholic-school life can account for: how to rob drug gangs, the best way to seduce female classmates, tricks for eluding principals or parents or cops.

Crazy or not, our boy has a fierce case of bad luck. People keep dying because of him, even when it's not his fault. Which isn't to overlook the growing degeneracy of his appetites. These New York Irish never got far from the bog. Awful things lurk in the woods at night, and it seems ever more likely that this depraved O'Kane is one of them.

Review Quotes

"The Naked Lunch of Irish folk horror."

"Shea Leitrim's The Good People and The Bad introduces Eddie O'Kane, the baddest and the best McGink to come out of Queens. Leitrim gives Dennis Lehane a run for his money when it comes to showing how messed up an Irish teenager's life can be."

"Meet your new favorite author. Shea Leitrim's debut is a wild feast of the weird...dark and disturbing, yet rooted in satire; complex yet fast moving; fantastic yet believable...It's absolutely refreshing to come across a novel so wonderfully inventive and deliciously readable."