A Thin Dark Line - Softcover

Tami Hoag

Softcover

ISBN 10: 075280958X ISBN 13: 9780752809588

Publisher: Orion, 1997

Synopsis

New York executive Michael McGuire finds his relationship with his son changed and his life endangered when he becomes involved in an IRA gunrunning plot. Reissue.

About this title

About the Author:

Peter Maas's is the author of the number one New York Times bestseller Underboss. His other notable bestsellers include The Valachi Papers, Serpico, Manhunt, and In a Child's Name. He lives in New York City.

From Publishers Weekly:

Maas has always brought a novelist's sense of pace and drama to his nonfiction (most notably Serpico ), so it should come as no surprise that his accomplished second novel is sharp and surehanded, especially in its depiction of people caught up in a cause about which they have more passion than knowledge. Widower Michael McGuire is a New York ad exec with dwindling emotional ties to his Irish heritage, but his young son Jamie (with some indoctrination from his grandfather) becomes an outspoken supporter of the IRA at an early age. At 19, he attends Harvard but moonlights as a coffeehouse balladeer whose songs about "the Troubles" capture the attention of a gunrunning network that decides to use him as a pawn. In alternate chapters, the author probes Michael and Jamie's relationship and strips away the layers of an IRA network that, in his portrayal, extends through every level of American government. As the stories converge into tragedy, Maas's tightly coiled narrative reaches a conclusion that, though inevitable, is highly effective. Major ad/promo.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Orion
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 075280958X
• ISBN 13: 9780752809588
• Binding: Paperback