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The Year of the Gun
- Author
- HB Lyle
- Narrator
- Michael Fenner
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Publish Date
- 5 November 2020
- Run Time
- 8 hours 16 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
'Irresistible' Guardian
'Impressive' Daily Mail
'Captivating' Mick Herron
1912. Released from the Secret Service, Wiggins sets out for New York and his lost lover Bela. But after an altercation on board, he finds himself among the low-life of Ireland's poorest city, Dublin.
Wiggins falls in with gangster Patrick O'Connell and is soon driving the boss's girlfriend around town. Molly wants O'Connell to support her Irish nationalist cause - a cause needing guns to defeat the British - and then they go to find them in America.
Finally, Wiggins can solve the mystery of Bela - and meet his old mentor, Sherlock Holmes, in a story of escalating intrigue, danger and violence.
Critics Review
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Lyle's series of thrillers featuring Wiggins, once one of Sherlock Holmes's Baker Street Irregulars, are coming on splendidly . . . Skilfully mixing real history with action sequences worthy of Lee Child, this is historical crime-writing at its best
John Williams, Mail on Sunday
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Full throttle, highly entertaining historical hokum, delivering entertainment in spades
Myles McWeeney, Irish Independent
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Lyle's unique blend of real history, inventive storytelling and characters borrowed from Conan Doyle is exhilarating... an action packed historical thriller... This is a series I hope will run and run
New Books Magazine
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The third outing in H.B. Lyle's engaging series of historical thrillers... The story rattles along at pace, the characters are engaging and the fight scenes burst with action. But Lyle's great strength is in his depiction of time and place; from its stinking tenements, where babies cry from hunger, to its sinister docks and upmarket brothels, the Edwardian city - then still part of Britain - is brought to life in all its squalid, magnificent glory
Financial Times
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A bruising, gritty and very entertaining adventure amid the slums and salons of 1912 Dublin, a city about to explode
Ed O'Loughlin
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Impressive period detail and sharp dialogue add charm to the strong plot
Daily Mail (on The Irregular)
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Details
- Author
- HB Lyle
- Narrator
- Michael Fenner
- Duration
- 8 hours 16 minutes
- Release Date
- 5 November 2020
- ISBN
- 9781473694019
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Genre
- Crime and / or mystery fiction, Historical fiction
Synopsis
SPY HUNTER SHORTLISTED FOR THE SPYMASTERS BEST ESPIONAGE NOVEL OF 2025, ALONGSIDE THE PEACOCK AND THE SPARROW BY I.S. BERRY AND GABRIEL'S MOON BY WILLIAM BOYD'Irresistible' Guardian'Impressive' Daily Mail'Captivating' Mick Herron1912. Released from the Secret Service, Wiggins sets out for New York and his lost lover Bela. But after an altercation on board, he finds himself among the low-life of Ireland's poorest city, Dublin.Wiggins falls in with gangster Patrick O'Connell and is soon driving the boss's girlfriend around town. Molly wants O'Connell to support her Irish nationalist cause - a cause needing guns to defeat the British - and then they go to find them in America.Finally, Wiggins can solve the mystery of Bela - and meet his old mentor, Sherlock Holmes, in a story of escalating intrigue, danger and violence.
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