© Comma 22, 2010
Séamus Joyce has a few things on his mind: his wife is in hospital, dying of an unidentified ailment. He has been appointed acting director of the iDEA - the Irish Drug Enforcement Agency - at a time when an ambitious new Minister for Justice is anxious to secure a few big scalps in the Dublin drug trade. Joyce, a senior civil servant without any law enforcement background, is expected to put himself on the front line of the fight. Soon he begins to suspect that the police, in league with the Minister, are bending the rules - rules he still doesn't quite understand. Why is money being paid into his bank account from an unnamed source in Liechtenstein? Why are his phones being tapped? And why are troubled schoolgirl and a diminutive nun accusing him of being at the heart of a lethal conspiracy?
Penguin Ireland 2004
Translated into: Italian
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