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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 *

The Dead Pass

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      Publisher Headline Publishing Group
      Published 26 March 2015
      ISBN-13 9781472201256
      978-1472201256
      ISBN-10 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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