The Death of an Irish Tradition
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McGarr’s body tensed, but he held himself back. “Hughie!” he called to Ward. He was willing to take the chance.
Sinclaire again enjoyed the flight, which had begun early in the evening that seemed to fall rapidly as they headed out over the Atlantic. They had a few drinks, a snack, played cards, and he even managed to get a little sleep. But waking every now and again, he kept half an eye on the tall, blond man who said he was a groom.
He had arrived at the airport only minutes before they took off, but the pilot said one of the Murray partners, from whom he, as Holohan, had bought two horses, had arranged for the service, and Sinclaire was genuinely pleased.
An hour after they were up, Sinclaire knocked on the cockpit door, pretending to want a look at the controls. He made small talk as he showed the pilot his Garda Soichana badge and the note he had written in the toilet.
Now, as the new day was dawning, the plane banked gently toward an island that appeared small and very green from afar, its beaches buff against the silver-gray sea.
“What’s that?” the young man asked, standing to look out the windows that were canted toward the earth.
“The Azores,” said Sinclaire. “We’ll refuel and get to stretch our legs.”
“Janie, but don’t it look—” His eyes fell on Sinclaire, who removed the newspaper on his lap.
The barrel of the Walther was pointing at O’Meara’s belly.
“I’ve been instructed to take you alive, Paddy, but it’s all one to me.”
McGarr, O’Shaughnessy, and McKeon were waiting at the Dublin Airport for the plane to put down.
Ward was at the Coombe Hospital where the girl had been moved from the intensive care section to a private room.
About the Author
BARTHOLOMEW GILL was the author of sixteen acclaimed Peter McGarr mysteries, among them Death in Dublin, The Death of an Irish Sinner and The Death of an Irish Lover. A graduate of Trinity College, Dublin, Mr. McGill wrote as Mark McGarrity for the Newark Star-Ledger. He passed away in the summer of 2002.
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Praise for
BARTHOLOMEW GILL’s
PETER McGARR novels
“[A] splendid series…Gill shapes wonderful sentences and zestfully evokes the scenery and the spirit of his former homeland. He is also an imaginative portrayer of character.”
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
“The beauty of Bartholomew Gill’s Irish police procedurals has as much to do with their internal complexity as with their surface charms and graces.”
New York Times Book Review
“[His] purebred Irish characters are true and memorable.”
Washington Post
“Gill’s novels are quite a bit more than police procedurals…They are distinguished by the quirky integrity that makes McGarr a vivid individual, by Gill’s ability to render the everyday speech of Dublin as music, and by the passions so keenly felt by his characters on both sides of the law.”
Detroit News
“McGarr is as complex and engaging a character as you can hope to meet in contemporary crime fiction…and Gill is a marvelous tour guide, showing us [this] troubled country’s charm and warts with style and wit.”
Denver Post
Also by Bartholomew Gill
DEATH IN DUBLIN
THE DEATH OF AN IRISH SINNER
THE DEATH OF AN IRISH LOVER
THE DEATH OF AN IRISH TINKER
THE DEATH OF AN IRISH SEA WOLF
THE DEATH OF AN ARDENT BIBLIOPHILE
DEATH ON A COLD, WILD RIVER
THE DEATH OF LOVE
THE DEATH OF A JOYCE SCHOLAR
MCGARR AND THE LEGACY OF A WOMAN SCORNED
MCGARR AND THE METHOD OF DESCARTES
MCGARR AND THE P.M. BELGRAVE SQUARE
MCGARR ON THE CLIFFS OF MOHER
(recently published as The Death of an Irish Lass)
MCGARR AND THE SIENESE CONSPIRACY
(recently published as The Death of an Irish Consul)
MCGARR AND THE POLITICIAN’S WIFE
(recently published as The Death of an Irish Politician)
Copyright
This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
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