In this concluding publication of Adrian McKinty’s highly praised Dead series, Michael Forsythe confronts his former lover and now archrival, Bridget.

Michael Forsythe has just survived his infiltration of the IRA splinter cell in Boston. Now, his many near fatal wounds healed, he begins his next adventure as manager of hotel security in Lima, Peru. It really is there he is approached by his previous lover, Bridget, whose spouse he killed. Bridget, phoning from Dublin, says her fourteen-year-old child has been kidnapped. Michael’s choice is to journey to Dublin and help her or even to be executed as a result of the goons holding him at gunpoint. He agrees to nothing and soon is normally on the way to Dublin, the first two of several dead bodies remaining in his wake.