Set in Carrickfergus, just outside Belfast, in 1981, the book is mired deep in the worst period of history for the Troubles, with the action taking place against a backdrop of hunger strikes, nightly riots, protection rackets and drug running by paramilitary organisations on both sides of the divide, and much more besides.
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Adrian McKinty: The Cold Cold Ground (Serpent's Tail)
Adrian McKinty is fast gaining a reputation as the finest of the new generation of Irish crime writers, and it's easy to see why on the evidence of this novel, the first in a projected trilogy of police procedurals.
