Adrian Mckinty

Nordirland, 1983. Als an einem Septembertag 38 IRA-Terroristen aus einem Hochsicherheitsgefängnis ausbrechen, herrscht höchste Alarmbereitschaft: Unter den Flüchtlingen befindet sich der in Libyen ausgebildete Bombenspezialist Dermot McCann. Inspector Sergeant Sean Duffy, der McCann aus Schulzeiten kennt, soll ihn finden. Er weiß: Jeden Moment könnten Bomben hochgehen, doch McCann bleibt verschwunden. Plötzlich wendet sich McCanns Ex-Schwiegermutter an Duffy. Sie will ihm helfen, aber erst, wenn er das Rätsel um den Tod ihrer Tochter gelöst hat…

Richard Coulter is a man who has everything. His beautiful new wife is pregnant, his upstart airline is undercutting the competition and moving from strength to strength, his diversification into the casino business in Macau has been successful, and his fabulous Art Deco house on an Irish cliff top has just been featured in Architectural Digest. But then, for some reason, his ex-wife Rachel doesn't keep her side of the custody agreement and vanishes off the face of the earth with Richard's two daughters. Richard hires Killian, a formidable ex-enforcer for the IRA, to track her down before Rachel, a recovering drug addict, harms herself or the girls…

A torso in a suitcase looks like an impossible case, but Sean Duffy isn’t easily deterred, especially when his floundering love life leaves him in need of a distraction. So with detective constables McCrabban and McBride, he goes to work identifying the victim. The torso turns out to be all that’s left of an American tourist who once served in the U.S. military. What was he doing in Northern Ireland in the midst of the 1982 Troubles? The trail leads to the doorstep of a beautiful, flame-haired, twentysomething widow, whose husband died at the hands of an IRA assassination team just a few months before…