![]() The references to 80’s music and TV amuse and the banter between Duffy and his colleagues is fun.Ī thrilling read with an exciting conclusion. Synopsis: The third Sean Duffy thriller: a spectacular escape and an intense man-hunt that could change the future of a nation and lay one man’s past to rest. The first person narration allows for the wit to shine. It’s gripping, edge of the seat stuff, but there’s time for humour. Duffy must crack on to prevent McCann causing further carnage. Like the earlier two Duffy novels, Northern Ireland’s Troubles are front of house, with bombs going off. He also carries many of the self-destructive vices of his contemporaries, the heavy drinking and smoking (not just cigs). ![]() Unusual for a man working in the Protestant Royal Ulster Constabulary, Duffy is Catholic. This comes about after the missing McCann’s mother-in-law offers to reveal his location if Duffy helps with her own four-year-old case in which her daughter Lizzie died. This terrorist action-thriller incorporates a wonderful locked-room mystery that has nice references to classic locked-room mysteries of old. ![]() Duffy is reinstated in order to help find McCann. ![]() It’s enough to get the recently demoted Sean Duffy away from his computer game.Īn old mate of his, Dermot McCann, who we met in a previous book, is one of the escapees and now a major threat. Belfast 1983 and there’s been a class 1 emergency, a mass break-out of IRA prisoners from the ‘escape-proof’ Maze prison, including several bomb-makers. ![]()
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