Not Alive, Not Dead

How do you find someone nobody believes is missing? A new historical thriller perfect for fans of Conclave



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'Likely to find favour with fans of Robert Harris' STRONG WORDS



'A masterful meditation on power, conscience and the cost of looking away' ADAM HAMDY



'Wonderful, moving and heart-breaking' TOM BENJAMIN



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Buenos Aires, 1976. A military junta rules Argentina with an iron fist. People are going missing. There are whispers of secret detention centres, of torture and murder behind locked doors.





Pablo Morales, a young priest, doesn't believe the rumours, until he hears a series of confessions that force him to confront the truth of the government's crimes - as well as the complicity of the Church.



Pablo knows he must investigate. But the deeper he explores this dangerous world, the harder it will be to ever escape it . . .



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Readers love John Donoghue . . .



'One of the best books I have read in a very long time'



'Excellent'



'A gripping read'



'Full of hope'



'Written with considerable flair'



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MORE PRAISE FOR JOHN DONOGHUE





'Heartfelt and immaculately researched' THE TIMES



'Compelling' BIG ISSUE



'Written with feeling and integrity' HERALD



John Donoghue has worked in mental health for over twenty years and written numerous articles about the treatment of mental illness in a variety of medical journals. He is the author of The Death's Head Chess Club, which has been translated into twelve languages, and Not Alive, Not Dead. He is married and lives in Liverpool.



John Donoghue writes with the precision of a historian and the soul of a novelist. Not Alive, Not Dead is a masterful meditation on power, conscience, and the cost of looking away. Donoghue's characters are alive with moral ambiguity, heartbreak, and terrifying realism, and leave us wondering what we would do in their shoes



John Donoghue's intensely evocative Not Alive, Not Deadbrilliantly captures the creeping horror of authoritarianism. Although set in the 1970s, readers will have little trouble drawing parallels with today, not least how Pablo's initial disbelief - it couldn't happen here - adjusts to the incontrovertible, and heartbreaking, truth.



Likely to find favour with fans of Robert Harris for its construction of an individual, against-the-clock quest for justice amid a real-life episode of historical dreadfulness