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The city of lies / Michael Russell.
"Dublin 1940. An IRA attempt to capture the British diplomatic bag on its way from Ireland to England leaves two Guards dead on the streets of Dublin. Two days later a pitched battle between warring gangs erupts at one of Ireland's biggest race meetings. On Ireland's east coast the cremated bodies of a wealthy family of five are found in their shuttered, burned-out villa. Connections between these events become clear to Detective Inspector Stefan Gillespie when he is despatched from Special Branch to investigate the seaside deaths, but he is soon treading on the toes of Ireland's burgeoning Intelligence industry - Irish, British and German, all playing against each other, all watching each other, and all plagued by rogue operators they can't quite control, as the certainty grows that Hitler is about to invade England. Meanwhile, in Berlin, a young Irish woman has been arrested for the murder of the German officer who was her lover."--Provided by the publisher.
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- ISBN: 9781472121950 (paperback)
- Physical Description: 354 pages ; 24 cm
- Publisher: London : Constable, 2017.
- Copyright: ©2017.
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Subject: | Gillespie, Stefan (Fictitious character) > Fiction. Detectives > Ireland > Fiction. Murder > Investigation > Fiction. Intelligence officers > Fiction. Terrorism > Prevention > Fiction. Dublin (Ireland) > Fiction. Ireland > History > 1922- > Fiction. |
Genre: | Detective and mystery fiction. |