The Trigger Man - Softcover

Joyce, Joe

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1520245920 ISBN 13: 9781520245928

Publisher: Independently published, 2016

Synopsis

Former IRA sniper Fergus Callan leaves his exiled life in Boston to return to “Troubles” Ireland when he hears that a former friend who once saved his life has gone missing.Once back he quickly finds himself pursued by former friends as well as foes. But which have set him up? The police, in the shape of an ambitious young Garda intelligence officer, for the murder of a detective he never intended to shoot? Or the IRA for an act of “treason” he did not commit?Callan tries to keep ahead of both as he visits old haunts, family and friends and tries to find out what is happening before the past can catch up with him.

About this title

From Library Journal:

The Trigger Man follows Fergus Callan on his perilous return to Ireland in response to an appeal from an old companion. Thrust by principles and peers into IRA activities during his youth, Callan had fled his homeland after a disastrous shooting. Now, as he makes his way to old friends and relatives, he is swept up once again in plot and counterplot, chase and evasion. Hunted by police and IRA hit men, Callan learns what he has gained--and lost--in his years underground. Joyce's gift is the creation of character through vivid detail. The reader gets inside Callan and his foes. Each character is complex and fully formed. The vignettes of Irish life are equally well portrayed by actions and scenery, providing an immediacy and emotional connection between reader and protagonists. This is an exceptionally strong and moving addition to the action genre.
- Elsa Pendleton, Boeing Comput er Support Svces., Ridgecrest, Cal.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Publishers Weekly:

"The cool morning air came in, carrying the chirping of birds and the sweet smells of the farmyard." Fergus Callan wakes up to this idyllic scene on a snatched visit to his boyhood home in Dubliner Joyce's second terse thriller, following Off the Record . A fugitive IRA assassin living illegally in Boston, Callan has risked his neck returning to Ireland to aid an old comrade. Once back, lyrical moments are brief as he is pursued by Inspector Keerins, an ambitious young intelligence officer, through a series of chases, betrayals and escapes. Callan outwits Keerins brilliantly and often, but because he is unwilling to kill to save himself, the trap relentlessly closes on him. Compounding the ironies implicit in deadly deeds committed in a setting of great beauty, is the sense Joyce conveys of the tragic futility of the Irish struggle and the seeming impossibility of its resolution.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Independently published
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1520245920
• ISBN 13: 9781520245928
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 243