The Bloomsday Dead Book

In this intensely riveting, action-packed novel, "virtuoso mayhem machine" (Booklist) Michael Forsythe returns to his native Ireland — where a dangerous and beautiful old flame causes way more trouble than he bargained for.

Running hotel security at a resort in Lima, Peru, Michael has been lying low and staying out of trouble — until two Colombian hit men hold him at gunpoint, and force him to take a call from his ex-lover, Bridget Callaghan. At that moment she offers him a terrible choice: come to Ireland and find my daughter, or my men will kill you — now.

Once in Dublin, in the span of a single day, Michael penetrates the heart of an IRA network, escapes his own kidnapping, and then worms his way into a sinister criminal underground in search of the missing girl. But before the day is out, Michael once again finds himself face-to-face with his kidnappers — as well as the lovely and murderous Bridget. There he must confront a series of shocking truths about himself — and do whatever it takes to stay alive.

The New York Times - Marilyn Stasio

After 12 years on the run in Mexico, the United States and Peru, the Irish mercenary Michael Forsythe battles and bluffs his way home to Belfast in The Bloomsday Dead, the explosive final installment in a trilogy of kinetic thrillers by Adrian McKinty. After making a surreal stopover in Dublin, where he eludes hit men by mingling with the mobs of James Joyce enthusiasts observing Bloomsday, Forsythe settles an old debt with the New York Irish mob boss Bridget Callaghan by agreeing to recover her kidnapped 11-year-old daughter. Bullets fly and Joycean literary references ricochet everywhere as Forsythe tries to get his bearings in a Belfast so politically stable and yet so redolent of the evil in its violent past that he can't wait to get out of town.