The Wild Colonial Boy: A Novel

After years of violence a tense calm pervades Northern Ireland soon to be broken by Jimmy Coogan an IRA veteran gone renegade. Jimmy has stolen ten pounds of plastic explosive intending to destroy the parliamentary ambitions of the IRA leadership. . Into Jimmys turbulent world come two young Americans: Brian vain ironic but well-meaning; and Clare a beautiful earnest college student. In Ireland on an errand for his Irish Republican family in Detroit Brian is recruited to Jimmys bloody mission by his cousin Maire Coogans sharp-tongued wife. Soon they are all drawn into the unforgiving labyrinth of modern terrorism borne toward a horrific and fatal climax.