The Informer by Liam O’Flaherty
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
This was a good story, mired in a heck of a lot of bilious, overwrought, sometimes plodding adjectives.
But entertaining with a few little funny moments and observations (even funnier when they weren’t laden with the minutest of details regarding the angle of both theft and right arms, hands, each finger, hair on the character’s head, &c.).
It reminded me of an Irish version of The Secret Agent, by Joseph Conrad (which I loved and flowed more smoothly, so far as I recall).