Eilis from the Flats is a hard-nosed but tender chronicle of flawed characters, bad choices, and contemporary Dublin life. This Irish novel of scandal and substance abuse follows the exploits of Tommy Baker, a veteran journalist; James Tierney, a researcher at Empire Television; Jimmy Heffernan, a reformed north-side Dublin gangster and local hero, and Eilis Devanney, who lives in the Star of the Sea flats, in Jimmy's neighborhood. When Eilis writes a document for Tommy and James, revealing that Jimmy is in no way reformed, there is no going back. The truth will out.