In the Forest Paul Bowles is as inevitable as it

is as inevitable as it is unexpected

sometime crook

a chance encounter brings Horn into contact with an old flame

but has other problems: his old police station has closed for business

In the Forest Paul Bowles is as inevitable as itBased on a horrendous true crime, IN THE FOREST si the story of Mich O'Kane 'not all there in the head' it's said who shoots three people dead in the woods of Ireland. Edna O'Brien traces the events that lead to such horror. Mich O'Kane hears voices; he cannot stop mourning the death of his mother. Theft and other crimes lead him to a Christian Brothers borstal, then to a British prison. By the time he returns home, he is an institutionalised criminal