![]() ![]() Fast-paced, evocative, and brutal, The Cold Cold Ground is a brilliant depiction of Belfast at the height of the Troubles-and of a cop treading a thin, thin line. Detective Sergeant Sean Duffy, who has just moved to the area and taken up a new post at Carrickfergus CID, is given the case, with two colleagues to help. A man is found dead in his car : he has been shot and his hand cut off. Add to this the fact that, as a Catholic policeman, it doesn't matter which side he's on, because nobody trusts him, and Sergeant Duffy really is in a no-win situation. The Cold Cold Ground is a police procedural set in the chaos of 1981 Belfast, Northern Ireland. It's no easy job-especially when it turns out that one of the victims was involved in the IRA but was last seen discussing business with someone from the loyalist Ulster Volunteer Force. ![]() The Cold Cold Ground is set in Northern Ireland in the Belfast area in 1981 during the Troubles. McKinty is a very good writer and he baits the reader very well. It was a very good read IMHO, and I quickly devoured the book. Detective Sergeant Duffy is the man tasked with trying to get to the bottom of it all. The Cold Cold Ground is Adrian McKinty’s first book in the Sean Duffy series. Prometheus/Seventh Street, 15.95 trade paper (340p) ISBN. Hunger strikes, riots, power cuts, a homophobic serial killer with a penchant for opera, and a young woman's suicide that may yet turn out to be murder: on the surface, the events are unconnected, but then things-and people-aren't always what they seem. The Cold Cold Ground: A Detective Sean Duffy Novel (The Troubles Trilogy, Book One) Adrian McKinty. ![]() McKinty's previous book, Falling Glass, was an Best Thriller of 2011 Northern Ireland, spring 1981. This Description may be from another edition of this product. ![]()
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