Terror From America

This thrilling historical fiction/espionage novel marks Golway’s debut as a novelist, blending his signature expertise in Irish-American history with classic detective fiction. The Premise: It’s 1885 and London is under siege. Irish American Fenians are dynamiting bridges, trains, and even Scotland Yard itself. Dispatched by Her Majesty’s government to New York, Sherlock Holmes travels a trail of verse and violence into the city’s Irish underworld, but as the great detective closes in, powerful forces within New York’s Irish community move to protect their own, turning the city into a battlefield of wit, loyalty, and hidden allegiances.

About Terry Golway
Terry Golway is a historian, journalist, and the author of more than a dozen books focused on Irish American and New York history, including Irish Rebel (a biography of John Devoy), Frank and Al (a dual biography of Franklin Roosevelt and Al Smith), and Machine Made: Tammany Hall and the Creation of Modern American Politics. Historians have credited him with bringing a fresh Famine perspective to the study of Irish American politics.

A Staten Island native, Golway served on the editorial board of the New York Times, was an editor at Politico, and wrote for the New York Observer. He is a frequent commentator on New York politics and Irish American affairs in both the United States and Ireland and has appeared on numerous national television news programs and documentaries. He currently teaches history and politics at the College of Staten Island.

About Tom Deignan Irish America’s Podcast Host
Tom Deignan has been a regular contributor and columnist for Irish America magazine for over 25 years. He frequently covers topics related to arts and entertainment, books, movies, music, history, and current affairs from an Irish-American perspective. A regular contributor to America Magazine (a national Catholic weekly). His work has also appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and the Newark Star-Ledger.
In addition to writing feature articles and cultural columns, Deignan hosts video and audio interviews for Irish America magazine. He has interviewed prominent authors and cultural figures, such as novelists Peter Quinn and Timothy Egan, and true-crime chronicler T.J. English.
A Staten Island Native, Deignan is a teacher and the author of Coming to America: Irish Americans. He frequently lectures on Irish-American history and literature.