A stunning new novel from the two-time Man Booker shortlisted author of "The Secret Scripture" In this highly anticipated new novel, Irishman Jack McNulty is a temporary gentleman an Irishman whose commission in the British army in World War II was never permanent. Sitting in his lodgings in Accra, Ghana, in 1957, he s writing the story of his life with desperate urgency. He cannot take one step further without examining all the extraordinary events...