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New York Times bestselling author Adrian McKinty continues the Edgar Award-winning Sean Duffy series with Hang On St. Christopher. Rain slicked streets, riots, murder, chaos. It's July 1992 and the Troubles in Northern Ireland are still grinding on after twenty-five apocalyptic years. Detective Inspector Sean Duffy got his family safely over the water to Scotland, to "Shortbread Land." Duffy's a part-timer now, only returning to Belfast six days a month to get his pension. It's an easy gig, if he can keep his head down. But then a murder case falls into his lap while his protégé is on holiday in Spain. A carjacking gone wrong and the death of a solitary, middle-aged painter. But something's not right, and as Duffy probes he discovers the painter was an IRA assassin. So, the question becomes: Who hit the hit man and why? This is Duffy's most violent and dangerous case yet and the whole future of the burgeoning "peace process" may depend upon it. Based on true events, Duffy must unentangle parallel operations by the CIA, MI5, and Special Branch. Duffy attempts to bring a killer to justice while trying to keep himself and his team alive as everything unravels around them. They might not all make it out of this one.

Mala to byť obyčajná rodinná dovolenka, všetko však zmení strašná nehoda. 24-ročná Heather sa vydá za 44-ročného Toma, ovdoveného lekára s malým synom a dospievajúcou dcérou. Pracovná dovolenka v zámorí sa zdá byť dokonalým spôsobom, ako dať novú rodinu dokopy. Keď objavia odľahlý ostrov, ktorý je pre vonkajších návštevníkov zakázaný, využijú šancu na dobrodružstvo ďaleko od dosahu mobilov a sociálnych sietí. Len čo však vkročia na ostrov, ktorý riadi klan miestnych obyvateľov, všetko sa začne kaziť. Šokujúce nešťastie, útek cez rozpálený ostrov, vraždy. Teraz je na Heather, aby zachránila seba aj deti. Aj keď jej neveria, drsný buš je plný nebezpečenstva a miestni chcú, aby zomrela. Heather bola celý život podceňovaná, no teraz vie, že len ona dokáže svoju rodinu priviesť opäť domov. Aj keď to znamená urobiť nemysliteľné. Lebo nikdy neviete čoho ste schopní, až pokiaľ niekto neohrozí vašu rodinu.

Belfast, 1992. Der ehemalige Detective Inspector Sean Duffy hat sich unlängst mit seiner Familie nach Schottland abgesetzt. In Belfast ist er nur noch tageweise. Doch als ein Landschaftsmaler ermordet wird, muss Duffy ein paar Extratage dranhängen. Alles sieht nach Autodiebstahl mit tödlichem Finale aus: Jemand hatte es auf den Jaguar des Opfers abgesehen, wurde überrascht, eine Waffe ist losgegangen. Doch ein Blick auf die Werke des Malers wirft die Frage auf, wie er damit genug Geld für einen Luxuswagen hatte verdienen können. Und wieso hat er regelmäßig eine Telefonnummer in der Republik Irland angerufen? Eine Nummer, die zu IRA-Funktionären im Exil führt. Duffy lässt sich nicht mit einfachen Lösungen abspeisen und gräbt tiefer. Bis er selbst von allen Seiten unter Beschuss gerät … Im Belfast der Neunziger ist plötzlich alles anders: Der Milchmann hat seinen Dienst quittiert, die Musik kommt von CD, und der katholische Bulle Sean Duffy ist ein Familienmensch mit Hauptwohnsitz in Schottland. Doch als er von einem dubiosen Mordfall auf den Plan gerufen wird, will Duffy unbedingt beweisen, dass ein alter Hund sehr wohl neue Tricks lernen kann.

In this gripping installment of the Sean Duffy detective series by Adrian McKinty, Detective Inspector Duffy navigates the tumultuous 1990s in Northern Ireland. As he investigates the disappearance of a teenage girl, he uncovers a dark underworld, raising the stakes for himself and his loved ones. Will he survive this final case?

Rachel pred chvíľou vysadila svoju jedinú dcéru Kylie na autobusovej zastávke a mieri na onkologické vyšetrenie. Vzápätí jej zavolá neznáma žena a vysvetlí situáciu. Niekto im uniesol syna, a ak ho chcú späť, musia uniesť iné dieťa a donútiť jeho rodičov k rovnakému zločinu. Voľba padla na Kylie. V tejto chvíli ju väznia na neznámom mieste. Rachel má dvadsaťštyri hodín, aby si vytypovala vhodnú obeť, uniesla ju a prinútila jej blízkych postupovať rovnako. V opačnom prípade Kylie zomrie. Odteraz je Rachel ohnivkom reťaze siahajúcej hlboko do minulosti. Tá sa za žiadnych okolností nesmie pretrhnúť.

"As he investigates a bizarre killing with an unusual weapon, Detective Sean Duffy only narrowly escapes becoming the next victim of the sinister underworld of 1980s Belfast"--Provided by publisher.

Rain Dogs, a stunning installment in the Sean Duffy thriller series, following the Edgar Award-nominated Gun Street Girl, is another standout in a superior series (Booklist). It's just the same things over and again for Sean Duffy: riot duty, heartbreak, cases he can solve but never get to court. But what detective gets two locked-room mysteries in one career? When journalist Lily Bigelow is found dead in the courtyard of Carrickfergus Castle, it looks like a suicide. Yet there are a few things that bother Duffy just enough to keep the case file open, which is how he finds out that Bigelow was working on a devastating investigation of corruption and abuse at the highest levels of power in the UK and beyond. And so Duffy has two impossible problems on his desk: Who killed Lily Bigelow? And what were they trying to hide?

A mysterious suicide and double murder are at the heart of this powerful thriller set in Northern Ireland amidst the Troubles, from the New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award-winning author Adrian McKinty "McKinty is in full command of language, plot, and setting in a terrifying period of history..." --Library Journal (starred review) Belfast, 1985. Amid the Troubles, Detective Sean Duffy, a Catholic cop in the Protestant Royal Ulster Constabulary, struggles with burnout as he investigates a brutal double murder and suicide. Did Michael Kelly really shoot his parents at point-blank and then jump off a nearby cliff? A suicide note points to this conclusion, but Duffy suspects even more sinister circumstances. He soon discovers that Kelly was present at a decadent Oxford party where a cabinet minister's daughter died of a heroin overdose, which may or may not have something to do with Kelly's subsequent death. New evidence leads elsewhere: gun runners, arms dealers, the British government, and a rogue American agent with a fake identity. Duffy thinks he's getting somewhere when agents from MI5 show up at his doorstep and try to recruit him, thus taking him off the investigation. Duffy is in it up to his neck, doggedly pursuing a case that may finally prove his undoing.

Lee Child, Eoin McNamee, and others explore the dark corners and alleyways of Belfast.

"A Catholic cop tracks an IRA master bomber amidst the sectarian violence of the conflict in Northern Ireland The early 1980s. Belfast. Sean Duffy, a conflicted Catholic cop in the Protestant RUC (Royal Ulster Constabulary), is recruited by MI5 to hunt down Cormac 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 Cormac'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 Cormac'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..."--