Richard Coulter is normally a man who has everything. His beautiful new wife is certainly pregnant, his upstart flight is undercutting your competition and moving from power to power, his diversification in to the gambling establishment business in Macau has prevailed, and his fantastic Art Deco home on an Irish cliff best has simply been featured in Architectural Process. But then, for reasons uknown, his ex-wife Rachel doesn’t maintain her side of the custody contract and vanishes away the facial skin of the planet earth with Richard’s two daughters. Richard hires Killian, a formidable ex-enforcer for the IRA, to track her down before Rachel, a recovering drug addict, harms herself or girls. As Killian follows Rachel’s path, he begins to see that there surely is far more to the case than 1st meets the eye and a thirty-year-old secret is going to put most of them in awful danger.

McKinty reaches his continent-hopping, well-paced, evocative best within this thriller, moving between his local Ireland and distant towns within a skin-of-his-teeth timeframe.