In the fall of 1987, the level of Irish Republican Army (IRA) violence escalates overnight in Ulster as their terror campaign morphs from fierce internecine warfare in blue-collar neighborhoods to upper-class targets in government, corporate board rooms and exclusive gentlemen’s clubs. All evidence points to a returned Irish expatriate, Sean O’Neill, a retired National Security Agency (NSA) executive and former U.S. Marine officer. O’Neill’s sidekick in Vietnam and the Middle East, Gordy Tyler, is reactivated by Naval Intelligence and loaned to NSA to go to Ireland, find O’Neill and bring him back to the USA by any means necessary, dead or alive. O’Neill is a major embarrassment to NSA and the US Government
Tyler and another NSA agent, Bridget Mahoney, who has overlapping loyalty and agenda issues as well as developing psychotic illusions, pose as honeymooning tourists. Mahoney is equal to Tyler in all things except physical size. She has her way through feminine wiles or by ruthlessly obliterating all opposition and anyone caught in the cross fire.
Surviving a botched assassination attempt in a dark, narrow, 18th century cobblestone alley in Dublin, Tyler rejects the NSA mission plan, goes rogue and gets cheerfully loud in pubs throughout the picturesque villages along the Irish Republic/Ulster border. That lets O’Neill find them when he is ready. Set in Ft. Worth, Texas; Washington, D.C.; Dublin, Ireland; and Ulster from the storm-swept ruins of Dunluce Castle to bomb-battered Enniskillen, Erin Go Kill is interwoven with international intrigue, intense personal loyalties, institutional deceptions, the excesses and aftermaths of colonial oppression, the controversial nature of sectarian warfare, a budding romance between evolving adversaries, and the actual historical events throughout northern Ireland during that era.
Erin Go Kill is the first book in a four book series. The second book in this series, Bad Moon Over Alpine, will be available by Christmas 2013.
