The Bluest Butterfly

As a child, Paul Gorman had witnessed the murder of his father in Belfast. He doesn't remember who did it, but the people behind it don't know that. In The Bluest Butterfly, the past catches up with Paul, now a thirty-year-old civil servant and diagnosed schizophrenic, as he is sucked into a dangerous conspiracy beyond his wildest delusions. Hounded by hired gun, Fox, Paul teams up with Blackie, a local taxi driver and the only friend he has left, to rid the world of the assassins' evil influence. Meanwhile, the policemen investigating Paul's case aren't all they seem to be, an environmental disaster threatens the opening of a new local department store, and Paul learns that his sweetheart is far from sweet. The Bluest Butterfly, named after the novel's narrator, Gypsy, is a wacky crime caper that will horrify and entertain in equal measure. And you'll never look at a butterfly in quite the same way again.