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

Publisher Review

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 — Adam Hamdy, bestselling author of PENDULUM and co-author of the PRIVATE series John Donoghue’s intensely evocative Not Alive, Not Dead brilliantly 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. — Tom Benjamin, author of the DANIEL LEICESTER mysteries