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Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
The diary of a New York art historian as she keeps company a Vermeer painting, being held by the IRA for ransom. Alone in her lover's cottage in Ireland, Patricia Dolan admires the woman on canvas. "She's beautiful," she writes. By the author of Objects in Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear.
3) Northern spy
Author
Language
English
Description
"A producer at the Belfast bureau of the BBC, Tessa is at work one day when the news of another raid comes on the air. The IRA may have gone underground after the Good Friday agreement, but they never really went away, and lately, bomb threats, arms drops, and helicopters floating ominously over the city have become features of everyday life. As the anchor requests the public's help in locating those responsible for this latest raid - a robbery at...
Author
Publisher
Custom House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
After twenty-five years of vicious conflict, the IRA and the British have agreed to an uneasy ceasefire as a first step towards lasting peace. But, faced with the prospect that decades of savage violence and loss have led only to smiles and handshakes, those on the ground in the border country question whether it really is time to pull back--or quite the opposite. When an IRA man's wife turns informer, he and his brother gather their comrades for...
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