“A locked-room mystery within a manhunt killer, a clever and gripping setup that helps make Duffy’s third outing easily his best so far.” Sunday Times (London)
Winner of the AudioFile Earphones AwardWinner of the 2014 Ned Kelly AwardAn AudioFile Best Audiobook of the Year for 2014Finalist for the 2015 Audie Award for Best Thriller/Suspense Narration
A Catholic cop tracks an IRA master bomber amidst the sectarian violence of the conflict in Northern Ireland in this pulse-pounding thriller from the New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award–winning author Adrian McKinty.
“McKinty’s writing is dark and witty with gritty realism, spot-on dialogue, and fascinating characters.” —Chicago Sun-Times
It's the early 1980s in Belfast. Sean Duffy, a conflicted Catholic cop in the Protestant RUC (Royal Ulster Constabulary), is recruited by MI5 to hunt down Dermot 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 Dermot'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 Dermot'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 …
Praise
“A locked-room mystery within a manhunt killer, a clever and gripping setup that helps make Duffy’s third outing easily his best so far.” Sunday Times (London)
“An action movie view of the Troubles…A fast and
thrilling ride from the reliably excellent McKinty.” Mail on Sunday (London)
“The explosive conclusion to McKinty’s Troubles trilogy combines an IRA thriller with a locked-room mystery…Though it’s the end of the trilogy, readers will hope that this won’t be the last they see of Sean Duffy.” Publishers Weekly
“Doyle’s
Northern Irish voices will inhabit listeners’ minds long after listening…Both
writing and narration are superb in this combination of political thriller and
classic locked-room mystery.” AudioFile
“McKinty places riveting police procedurals in the political context of The Troubles, sharply ratcheting up the tension and fear…But it’s not all grit: McKinty’s novels are also shot through with a smart, crackling humor that manages to be both dark and witty.” Boston Globe
“Not content with constructing a complex plot,
McKinty further wraps his story around a deliciously old-fashioned ‘locked room’
mystery, the solution to which holds the key to Duffy’s entire investigation.
Driven by McKinty’s brand of lyrical, hard-boiled prose, leavened by a
fatalistic strain of the blackest humor, In
the Morning I’ll Be Gone is a hugely satisfying historical thriller.” Irish Times
“This is the third in the series and, for me, the
best, for it contains a locked room mystery at the heart of a drama about a
major terrorist escape from the Maze prison, Belfast in 1983. Written in spare,
razor-sharp prose, and leading up to a denouement that creeps up on you and
then explodes like a terrorist bomb, it places McKinty firmly in the front rank
of modern crime writers.” Daily Mail (London)
“McKinty’s latest demonstrates his skill as one of
Ireland’s best and most innovative crime writers.” Belfast Telegraph
“[A] superb trilogy reaches its finality…The hunt
for [Duffy’s quarry] begins and ends spectacularly. McKinty is particularly
convincing in painting the political and social backdrops to his plots. He
deserves to be treated as one of Britain’s top crime writers.” Times (London)
“An older, more sobered Duffy, still unconventional
and willing to take chances but more reflective, more Sherlock Holmes and Edgar
Allen Poe than Robocop. His growing maturity results in fewer bedroom scenes,
but there is plenty of excitement and suspense elsewhere in this intelligent
and gripping yarn.” Irish Independent
“Sardonic Belfast cop Sean Duffy [in] another terrific
Troubles-set thriller.” Sun (UK), 4.5 stars
Adrian McKinty was born and grew up in Belfast, Northern Ireland, during the Troubles. His father was a welder in Harland and Wolff—the shipyard where they built the Titanic; his mother was a school lunch lady and secretary. Adrian went to Oxford University on a full scholarship where he studied philosophy.
Emigrating first to America and then Australia he found work as a door-to-door salesman, a driver, a bookstore clerk, a barman, a high school English teacher, and a semipro rugby player.
His debut crime novel, Dead I Well May Be, was shortlisted for the 2004 Dagger Award and was optioned by Universal Pictures. He is the author of more than a dozen crime novels that have been translated into over forty languages. He has won the Edgar Award, the Anthony Award, the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award, the Barry Award, the Macavity Award, the International Thriller Writers Award, and is a three-time winner of the Ned Kelly Award.
His 2020 novel The Chain was a New York Times bestseller and appeared on twenty-five best-of-the-year lists. His 2022 novel The Island was an instant New York Times bestseller and made five best-of-the-year lists including those of the London Times and the New York Times.
Adrian is a member of the Linnean Society and the National Audubon Society. He lives in New York City with his wife and two children.
Gerard Doyle, a seasoned audio narrator, he has been awarded dozens of AudioFile Earphones Awards, was named a Best Voice in Young Adult Fiction in 2008, and won the prestigious Audie Award for best narration. He was born of Irish parents and raised and educated in England. In Great Britain he has enjoyed an extensive career in both television and repertory theater and toured nationally and internationally with the English Shakespeare Company. He has appeared in London’s West End in the gritty musical The Hired Man. In America he has appeared on Broadway in The Weir and on television in New York Undercover and Law & Order. He has taught drama at Ross School for the several years.
Overview
Winner of the AudioFile Earphones AwardWinner of the 2014 Ned Kelly AwardAn AudioFile Best Audiobook of the Year for 2014Finalist for the 2015 Audie Award for Best Thriller/Suspense Narration
A Catholic cop tracks an IRA master bomber amidst the sectarian violence of the conflict in Northern Ireland in this pulse-pounding thriller from the New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award–winning author Adrian McKinty.
“McKinty’s writing is dark and witty with gritty realism, spot-on dialogue, and fascinating characters.” —Chicago Sun-Times
It's the early 1980s in Belfast. Sean Duffy, a conflicted Catholic cop in the Protestant RUC (Royal Ulster Constabulary), is recruited by MI5 to hunt down Dermot 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 Dermot'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 Dermot'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 …