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  • Genre:fiction
  • Sub-genre:Thrillers / Historical
  • Language:English
  • Pages:216
  • eBook ISBN:9798317810238
  • Paperback ISBN:9798317805906

Shamrock

By Robert McParland

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Overview


Shamrock, a notorious figure often described as an assassin, has become a guardian of justice in North Ireland in the turbulent days before the Good Friday agreement. He confronts a splinter group of "the real IRA" which has targeted a charismatic female member of Parliament. A Special Branch investigator attempts to unravel the mystery of Shamrock, while protecting the MP. A bookish man attending a reading conference and three American women on holiday are drawn into contact with the conflict that has emerged between Shamrock, the British detective, and the agitators who seek to disrupt the peace agreement.
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Description


Shamrock, a notorious figure often described as an assassin, has become a guardian of justice in Northern Ireland in the turbulent days before the Good Friday agreement. He confronts a splinter group of "the real IRA" which has targeted a charismatic female member of Parliament. A Special Branch investigator attempts to unravel the mystery of Shamrock, while protecting the MP. A bookish man attending a reading conference and three American women on holiday are drawn into contact with the conflict that has emerged between Shamrock, the British detective, and the agitators who seek to disrupt the peace agreement.
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About The Author


Robert McParland is the author of the novels Shamrock and The Last Alchemist. His non-fiction books include Beyond Gatsby: How Fitzgerald, Hemingway and Other Writers Shaped Literature in the 1920s; From Native Son to King's Men: The Literary Landscape of 1940s America; The People We Meet in Stories: Literary Characters That Defined the 1950s; Cultural Memory, Consciousness, and the Modernist Novel; Citizen Steinbeck; Transatlantic Modernism; Literary Modernism and Philosophy; Mark Twain's Audience; Charles Dickens's American Audience; Take Me Out to the Crowd: A History of Baseball Fans; American Melodies: Popular Music, Community, and Ecology and other books on popular music.  

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