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Hired to find the missing son of retired political activist Moira Doherty, Dan Starkey knows his new case is going to be challenging. Billy ''the Bear'' Doherty isn''t an easy man to find - a criminal with a nasty drug habit, his mum is convinced he''s been murdered.

But when Moira herself is killed, her body found floating in the waters under Londonderry''s Peace Bridge, Dan finds himself in the middle of a deadly game of cat and mouse.

Already in unfamiliar territory, Starkey is quickly embroiled in the city''s porn and drug fuelled underworld, where a new generation of gangster terrorist is intent on creating mayhem their predecessors could only dream of ...



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He just seems to get better and better -- Ian Rankin
Sometimes brutal, often blackly humorous and always terrific * Observer *
Fast and furious * Daily Mirror *
A dark and brilliant champion of words -- James Nesbitt
Fast paced and throbbing with menace * Time Out *

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    Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
    Publication Date: 26/03/2015
    ISBN13: 9781472201256, 978-1472201256
    ISBN10: 1472201256

    Description

    Book Synopsis

    Hired to find the missing son of retired political activist Moira Doherty, Dan Starkey knows his new case is going to be challenging. Billy ''the Bear'' Doherty isn''t an easy man to find - a criminal with a nasty drug habit, his mum is convinced he''s been murdered.

    But when Moira herself is killed, her body found floating in the waters under Londonderry''s Peace Bridge, Dan finds himself in the middle of a deadly game of cat and mouse.

    Already in unfamiliar territory, Starkey is quickly embroiled in the city''s porn and drug fuelled underworld, where a new generation of gangster terrorist is intent on creating mayhem their predecessors could only dream of ...



    Trade Review
    He just seems to get better and better -- Ian Rankin
    Sometimes brutal, often blackly humorous and always terrific * Observer *
    Fast and furious * Daily Mirror *
    A dark and brilliant champion of words -- James Nesbitt
    Fast paced and throbbing with menace * Time Out *

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