An off-duty cop witnesses a double murder outside a Dublin nightclub in the 1980s, and faces an ultimatum from the vicious crime boss behind the killings. Soon he learns the bitter truth of the saying, "The past is never past. It's not even over." Fast forward to summer 2005. An informant who offers Matt Minogue a rumour about a Dublin crime boss having a senior boss 'on side'-and that the death of an undercover detective last year was connected-is found murdered twelve hours later. Inveigling his way into the cold file on ...
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An off-duty cop witnesses a double murder outside a Dublin nightclub in the 1980s, and faces an ultimatum from the vicious crime boss behind the killings. Soon he learns the bitter truth of the saying, "The past is never past. It's not even over." Fast forward to summer 2005. An informant who offers Matt Minogue a rumour about a Dublin crime boss having a senior boss 'on side'-and that the death of an undercover detective last year was connected-is found murdered twelve hours later. Inveigling his way into the cold file on the detective's death, Minogue is confronted by someone who brazenly tries to gun him down on a busy Dublin street. The past certainly doesn't appear to be over.
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Fine. Trade Paperback Original 1st. Ed. FINE. Trade Paperback Original. A HAMMETT AWARD NOMINEE. A Matt Minogue mystery set in Dublin. A copper learns he has been living a lie: the past returns with a vengeance. Dublin then--November late 1980s sees Garda Declan Kelly working his last off-duty shift outside a nightclub when he witnesses a double murder. Spared a bullet in the back of the head, he is snared instead by a crime family and forced into an impossible position. His suicide note to his pregnant wife brings her overpowering rage as well as grief. It also gives her a thirst for revenge on all who let her husband down--including the Guards themselves. Her husband had asked for help from his Sergeant. The reply was a cold demand to turn himself in, as a criminal. Dublin now--From a jittery addict, Minogue hears that a crime syndicate has had an insider copper-a senior, ranking Garda officer-for many years. Is this a ruse? Probing further, he runs up against a disturbing link between a trafficked Moldovan girl. Also, there are rumblings of a feud between Irish crime families and Eastern European gangsters too. Trawling the pubs and club, Minogue comes in contact with a prostitution racket run by an affable, accented ‘George. ' A chase down the teeming lanes and streets of central Dublin ends in a violent clash between police and criminals, and between the present and the past.
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New. First edition first printing of the eighth novel in the Inspector Matt Minogue series. In fine unread condition. Trade paperback (US). 345 p. Audience: General/trade.
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Fine with no dust jacket. 1552785203. A Good Read ships from Toronto and Niagara Falls, NY-customers outside of North America please allow two to three weeks for delivery.; First printing.; 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall; Signed by Author.
This is the latest in Canadian author John Brady's series about Matt Minogue and his colleagues in the Dublin Garda. A rumour that a crime boss has an informer within the squad leads to a murder which leads back to another murder twenty years before, showing starkly and painfully that 'The past is never past. It's not even over.' And as the past circles, the reader is drawn in, feeling that the end of the series looms. I can only quote another reviewer: 'The ending is heart-breaking. I couldn't stop reading.'
