In the Morning I'll Be Gone: Troubles Trilogy, Book 3 Author: | Language: English | ISBN:
B00HWH2YQC | Format: PDF
In the Morning I'll Be Gone: Troubles Trilogy, Book 3 Description
A Catholic cop tracks an IRA master bomber amidst the sectarian violence of the conflict in Northern Ireland.
It's the early 1980s in Belfast. Sean Duffy, a conflicted Catholic cop in the Protestant RUC (Royal Ulster Constabulary), is recruited by MI5 to hunt down Dermot McCann, an IRA master bomber who has made a daring escape from the notorious Maze prison. In the course of his investigations, Sean discovers a woman who may hold the key to Dermot's whereabouts; she herself wants justice for her daughter, who died in mysterious circumstances in a pub locked from the inside. Sean knows that if he can crack the "locked room mystery", the bigger mystery of Dermot's whereabouts might be revealed to him as a reward.
Meanwhile the clock is ticking down to the Conservative Party Conference in Brighton in 1984, where Mrs. Thatcher is due to give a keynote speech.
- Audible Audio Edition
- Listening Length: 9 hours and 51 minutes
- Program Type: Audiobook
- Version: Unabridged
- Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
- Audible.com Release Date: March 4, 2014
- Whispersync for Voice: Ready
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00HWH2YQC
The author, Adrian Mckinty, grew up in Carrickfergus, Northern Island. He knows all about 'The Troubles', and he knows first hand the characters he writes about. Carrickfergus, means 'rock of Fergus', and predates Belfast, and, was for awhile the bigger and more prominent city. 'The main participants in the Troubles were republican paramilitaries (such as the Provisional IRA), loyalist paramilitaries (such as the UVF and UDA), the British state security forces (the British Army and the RUC, Northern Ireland's police force)'. Wiki .
Sean Duffy is a policeman in the RUC and stationed in Carrickfergus. There was a very large paramilitary police group stationed here. In the 1980's their job was that of the usual police, fighting crime. But, the bigger issue was the IRA. Duffy was Catholic in a mainly Protestant area, he checked his car every morning for IRA bombs. He is a hard drinking, fighting man, got into trouble and was dismissed from the force and received a retirement pension. He was drinking the way through his day when he was approached by two reps of MI-5 who wanted his assistance in capturing Dermot McCann, a master IRA builder of bombs. Sean and Dermot went to school together. They knew each other, and Duffy knew the family. Duffy accepted the job with certain pre-requisites of which the MI-5 agreed. Thus began the search. Duffy is a smart guy, crafty, wily and thinks he can outsmart his enemy. He has empathy for their cause, but not for the manner in which they carry on. Along with this job, Duffy picks up a cold case murder of a young Irish lass. This will lead him along the path to hopefully find Dermot.
Duffy is a hard hitting character, fueled with anger, but has an innate intelligence that serves him well. When others would give up, he keeps grinding away.
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