The City Of Lies Av Michael Russell

<P>Dublin 1940. <br><br>An IRA attack leaves two guards dead on the streets of Dublin. Two days later, a battle between warring gangs erupts at a race meeting, and on Ireland''s east coast the cremated bodies of a wealthy family of five are found in their shuttered, burned-out villa. <br><br>Dispatched from Special Branch to investigate, Detective Inspector Stefan Gillespie soon finds himself caught in a web of Irish, British and German Intelligence - all playing against each other, all watching each other, and all plagued by rogue operators they can''t quite control, as the certainty grows that Hitler is about to invade England. <br><br>And then, Stephen is sent to Berlin on a sensitive mission. His journey home becomes a dangerous pursuit in which no one can be trusted and the information he carries puts his life on the line.</P>