{"product_id":"the-murderer-and-the-taoiseach-9781399718592","title":"The Murderer and the Taoiseach","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Murderer. A Leader. The Scandal of an Era.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Reads like a thriller but is sadly all too true ... a brilliant account of shocking crimes and the dramatic political crisis they caused'' David McCullagh\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe summer of 1982 was long-seared into the Irish public imagination for more than just its record high temperatures. That July, an aristocrat named Malcolm Macarthur went on a brutal killing spree, taking the lives of two innocent young people - Bridie Gargan and Dónal Dunne - in a doomed plan to remedy his financial woes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA massive manhunt was launched and, in a sensational turn of events, Macarthur was captured in the home of the State''s top law officer, Attorney General Patrick Connolly.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe scandal attracted worldwide headlines and resulted in untold damage to Taoiseach Charles Haughey. The words he used to describe the dark events - grotesque, unbelievable, bizarre and unprecedented - coined the era-defining phrase GUBU.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHere, aw\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis remains an incredible and compelling story more than forty years on. It is done justice with Harry McGee's keen eye for detail and is told with great style * Matt Cooper *\u003cbr\u003eThis gripping book reads like a thriller - but is sadly all too true. Considerable research and original material are skilfully woven into a fast-paced, brilliant account of shocking crimes, and of the dramatic political crisis which they caused. A highly readable and important book * David McCullagh *\u003cbr\u003eGUBU marked the loss of Irish innocence, a collision of politics and evil that was as shambolic as it was banal. McGee's narrative is brisk and luminous, cracking with detail, characters and analysis, bringing the twin legacies of Malcolm Macarthur and Charles Haughey to a gripping finale * Tony Connelly *\u003cbr\u003eJournalist Harry McGee goes a lot deeper in his compelling new analysis of those murders * Irish Independent *\u003cbr\u003eThe book is strongest on the political fallout from the case * Irish Times *\u003cbr\u003eimpressively researched and vividly written ... This is a Gubu book for very different reasons, gripping, unpretentious, brilliant, and unputdownable * Sunday Business Post *\u003cbr\u003eMcGee is a natural storyteller with a telling eye for detail, and he recounts the tale with gusto * Irish Examiner *\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hachette Books Ireland","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48885502050647,"sku":"9781399718592","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-murderer-and-the-taoiseach-9781399718592","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}