The victim was homosexual and when another homosexual is killed it looks like the Ulster police are dealing with their first serial killer ever. Sergeant Duffy is called to investigate what appears to be an ordinary execution of a police informer but it soon becomes clear that this is not an ordinary case. But it was a safe posting and in my fortnight here I’d been impressed by the collegiate atmosphere, if not always with the professionalism of my colleagues.” “Chief Inspector Tom Brennan was my boss, the man in charge of the entire police station in Carrickgfergus….I, a buck sergeant with two months’ seniority, was in fact the fourth most senior officer in the place. A week after dies the second of the strikers, Frankie Hughes, but the riots for his death seem now somewhat … orchestrated. The Catholic areas of the city have erupted spontaneously in anger and frustration. Bobby Sands has died in The Maze, after sixty-six days hunger strike. This is the first instalment in a new trilogy featuring Sean Duffy, a Catholic detective in the Royal Ulster Constabulary, RUC, which is mostly Protestant. When the road’s washed out they pass the bottle aroundĪnd wait in the arms of the cold cold ground. There’s a bird in the chimney and a stone in my bed, Now don’t be a cry baby when there’s wood in the shed (Nov.Esta entrada es bilingüe para ver la versión en castellano desplazarse hacia abajo Though an anachronistic tone occasionally jars with the period atmosphere provided by carefully observed detail and cameos from the likes of Gerry Adams, the deft mix of noirish melancholy with express-train pacing and blockbuster-ready action enticingly sets the stage for Duffy's future adventures.
As Duffy tries to decipher gnomic clues involving opera and mythology, he begins to suspect that the suicide of a hunger striker's wife links the apparently apolitical murders to the equally ruthless paramilitary and IRA factions.
With the hunger strikes ongoing, Duffy tries to prove himself by finding an apparent serial killer targeting gay men, but is impeded by Northern Ireland's revolution-racked but socially conservative culture. Sean Duffy, a Catholic who remains brashly, winningly sardonic even under the pressure of 1981 Belfast's overwhelmingly Protestant police force. This series starter from McKinty (Fifty Grand) introduces hard-boiled but likable Det.
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