In the Morning I'll Be Gone

In the Morning I'll be Gone is a 2014 novel by Irish/Australian novelist Adrian McKinty which won the 2014 Ned Kelly Award for Best Novel. It is the third in the author's Sean Duffy series, following The Cold Cold Ground and I Hear the Sirens in the Street.

Plot summary

In Belfast, September 1983, in the middle of The Troubles, Sergeant Sean Duffy is drummed out of the Royal Ulster Constabulary on trumped up charges. At the same time, Dermot McCann, an IRA master bomber and ex-schoolmate of Duffy's escapes from the Maze and becomes a prime target of British Intelligence. MI5 drags Duffy out of his drunken retirement to track down McCann. The novel follows Duffy's attempts to solve a locked-room murder in order to obtain inside information on McCann's whereabouts, which finally leads to the assassination attempt on British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in Brighton.

Notes

• Epitaph: "My friend you must understand that time forks perpetually into countless futures. And in at least one of them I have become your enemy." Jorge Luis Borges, The Garden of Forking Paths (1941)

Reviews

• The Boston Globe^[1]
• Kirkus Reviews^[2]
• Publisher's Weekly^[3]
• Booklover Book Reviews^[4]

Awards and nominations

• 2014 winner Ned Kelly Awards for Crime Writing — Best Novel^[5]

References