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Author
Publisher
Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
In this stunning work chronicling the author's exploration of his own past- and the lives of many hundreds of thousands of nameless immigrants who struggled alongside his own ancestors- Peter Quinn paints a brilliant new portrait of the Irish-American men and women whose evolving culture and values continue to play such a central role in all of our identities as Americans. In Quinn's hands, the Irish stereotype of "Paddy" gives way to an image of...
Author
Series
Publisher
Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Peter Quinn's The Man Who Never Returned is a noir-ish, stylized detective narrative set in 1950s New York. It follows Fintan, a retired detective turned private investigator who has been given the job of finding Judge Crater, who just went missing in 1930. Based on a real story, it is quite an intriguing tale that was even more so for people living at the time. The famous missing-person case is comparable to the Amelia Earhart missing-person case,...
3) Dry bones
Author
Series
Publisher
Overlook Duckworth
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"Fintan Dunne, the detective at the center of The Man Who Never Returned and Hour of the Cat, is back in this spellbinding story of an ill-fated OSS mission into the heart of the Eastern front and its consequences more than a decade after the war's end. As the Red Army continues its unstoppable march toward Berlin in the winter of 1945, Dunne and his fellow soldier Dick Van Hull volunteer for a dangerous drop behind enemy lines to rescue a team of...
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