In the Morning I’ll Be Gone

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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 …

Critics Review

  • “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)
  • “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

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