![]() The who-done-it suspense builds as Sean seems to go in circles, struggling to solve the mystery of the locked room and the tension becomes almost unbearable as the likelihood of explosive attacks increases with time.Īlthough he now lives in Melbourne, Adrian McKinty grew up in Northern Ireland and he paints a complex the backdrop of the political and social upheaval in Ireland during this time to the suspenseful drama. But finding Dermot leads Sean to an old locked room mystery, and into the kind of danger where you can lose as easily as winning. ![]() And he knew, with chilly certainty, that their paths would cross. Specialising in biting wit and sarcasm, he doesn’t always follow the rule book and eventually he is promised information if he can solve a murder. Of course hes heard about the spectacular escape of IRA man Dermot McCann from Her Majestys Maze prison. Sean takes the reader into the Troubles and the derelict neighbourhoods, looking for leads to locate his valuable quarry. Dermot has escaped from the Maze and Sean is recruited to hunt him down before he uses his bomb-making skills. This is the third in the Sean Duffy series about the 1983 escape from Belfast’s Maze Prison by major players in the IRA, with the previous two adventures – The Cold Cold Ground and I Hear Sirens in the Street – having both won awards. Sean went to university and became a detective and the charismatic Dermot became a skilled IRA terrorist and ended up in prison. Both were highly intelligent and a bit wild but Dermot was the head boy while Sean was the deputy. ![]() Sean Duffy always looked up to classmate Dermot McCann. ![]()
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