From New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award–winning author Adrian McKinty, this thrilling mystery featuring Detective Sean Duffy was a Boston Globe Best Book of the Year.
Belfast, 1988. A man is found dead, killed with a bolt from a crossbow in front of his house. This is no hunting accident. But uncovering who is responsible for the murder will take Detective Sean Duffy down his most dangerous road yet, a road that leads to a lonely clearing on a high bog where three masked gunmen will force Duffy to dig his own grave.
Hunted by forces unknown, threatened by Internal Affairs, and with his relationship on the rocks, Duffy will need all his wits to get out of this investigation in one piece.
Adrian McKinty was born and grew up in Belfast, Northern Ireland. He studied philosophy at Oxford University before moving to Australia and to New York. He is the author of more than a dozen crime novels, including the award-winning standalone thriller The Chain, which was a New York Times and #1 international bestseller. McKinty’s books have been translated into over forty languages, and he has won the Edgar Award, the International Thriller Writers Award, the Ned Kelly Award (three times), the Anthony Award, the Barry Award, the Macavity Award, and the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award. His novel The Island was an instant New York Times bestseller and made their “Best Thrillers of 2022” list.
Table of Contents
Prologue: You Can't Trust a Special Like the Old-Time Coppers1. No Hay Banda2. Just Another Dead Drug Dealer3. The Big Sheep4. A Pretty Shitty Morning On the Ballypollard Road5. Inspector Dalziel6. Mr. Deauville's Interesting Past7. The Bulgarians and the Bel Tel8. Ivan Morrison9. DAADD Knows Best10. Death On the Rock11. The Lady Vanishes12. The Angry Father13. The Paper, the Scissors, and Michael Stone14. A Taste of Honey15. That Petrol Emotion16. Out Here In the Woods17. The Old Files18. Infernal Affairs19. Lifted20. Out of the Silent Planet21. Aftermath22. Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? 23. The ACC24. Driving Music25. The Offer26. The Factory27. Running for the Border28. Detective Sergeant John Crabbie McCrabban29. The Chief Constable30. O Masterful Bleak Cop31. Silencio