This book will be a great read for those who love a classic detective thriller with a political tinge. Adrian McKinty's Intricate writing style combined with the story's political substance will keep the readers on edge, constantly trying to solve the mystery. The book's strongest point is its ability to give readers a detailed understanding of the historical events mentioned without compromising the pace or the thrill of the story.

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• Ned Kelly Award for Best Fiction (2014)

A Ned Kelly Award winner!Detective Sean Duffy works to crack a locked room mystery while tracking an escaped IRA master bomber.The early 1980s. 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....

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