num_pages: 377
description: Fred Scully waits at the arrival gate of an international airport, anxious to see his wife and seven-year-old daughter. After two years in Europe they are finally settling down. He sees a new life before them, a stable outlook, and a cottage in the Irish countryside that he's renovated by hand. He's waited, sweated on this reunion. He does not like to be alone - he's that kind of man. The flight lands, the glass doors hiss open, and Scully's life begins to go down in flames.
language: English
title: The Riders
titlecomplete: The Riders
genres: Literature, Literary Fiction, Novels, Book Club, Australia, Greece, Ireland, Fiction, Contemporary, Mystery
ratings_count: 6707
awards: awardedAt: 788947200000
name: Booker Prize, awardedAt: 788947200000
name: Commonwealth Writers' Prize
category: Best Book in South East Asia and Pacific
publisher: Scribner