In this concluding book of Adrian McKinty's highly praised Dead series, Michael Forsythe confronts his former lover and now archrival, Bridget.
Michael Forsythe has just survived his infiltration of an IRA splinter cell in Boston. Now, his many near fatal wounds healed, he begins his next adventure as manager of hotel security in Lima, Peru. It is there he is contacted by his former lover, Bridget, whose husband he killed. Bridget, calling from Dublin, says her fourteen-year-old daughter has been kidnapped. Michael's choice is to fly to Dublin and help her or to be executed at the hands of the goons holding him at gunpoint. He agrees to nothing and soon is on the way to Dublin, the first two of many dead bodies left in his wake.
About the Author :
Adrian McKinty was born and grew up in Belfast, Northern Ireland. He studied philosophy at Oxford University before moving to Australia and to New York. He is the author of more than a dozen crime novels, including the Dagger and Edgar-award nominated debut Dead I Well May Be, the critically acclaimed Sean Duffy series, and the award-winning standalone thriller The Chain, which was a New York Times and #1 international bestseller. McKinty's books have been translated into over 30 languages and he has won the Edgar Award, the International Thriller Writers Award, the Ned Kelly Award (3 times), the Anthony Award, the Barry Award, the Macavity Award, and the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award. Gerard Doyle has appeared in London's West End in The Hired Man and in Shakespeare's Coriolanus and The Winter's Tale, and has toured nationally and internationally with the English Shakespeare Company. He has appeared on Broadway in The Weir and on television in New York Undercover and Law and Order. Mr. Doyle is also an award-winning audiobook narrator.
Review :
"[With] a clean, well-articulated Irish lilt...Doyle's skillful narration draws the listener deep into this dark side of the emerald isle."
-- "Publishers Weekly (audio review)"
"A near-perfect marriage of fiction and performance, The Bloomsday Dead is a must-listen...Forsythe is portrayed by Doyle in an intimate virtuoso performance that intensifies the taut, gritty writing...in this soaring, tragic story...Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award."
-- "AudioFile"
"Outpaces its immediate predecessor, The Dead Yard...with [McKinty's] trademark dark lyricism, one great red herring, and a masterful plot twist that brings Forsythe's character full circle in a lightning flash."
-- "Booklist (starred review)"
"As always, Gerard Doyle provides a lively, often unexpectedly comic performance. No one could possibly interpret McKinty's continually exciting and surprising fiction as well. Highly recommended."
-- "Library Journal (starred review)"
"His most visceral, satisfying effort yet...McKinty writes masterful action scenes, and he whips up a frenzy as the bullets begin to fly."
-- "Publishers Weekly (starred review)"
