He is soon to discover he can trust no one, not even himself.The publisher burdens this first novel by a young Irish writer with comparisons to such high stylists as Don DeLillo and Cormac McCarthy.

He is determined not only to be the best spy but to keep his friends. No danger compares to the mission that Master Devoy sends him on: Danny must reach the Lower World to infiltrate the Ring. Danny makes friends and settles into his rigorous spy training, but with his different coloured eyes and his pointed features, he looks like a Cherb, attracting enemies and several attempts on his life. He has been handpicked to join Wilsons, dedicated to the defeat of the ruthless Cherbs led by the Ring of Five. They must find a spy to infiltrate the Ring, one who has the mark of the fifth, one who has treachery written on his heart.ĭanny is on the way to his new boarding school when he is kidnapped. Wilsons spy academy is the only force left protecting the Upper World and its power is fading.

The Ring of Five, ruthless leaders of the Lower World, are growing stronger.

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The Ring of Five by Eoin McNamee