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Book review „The Sirius Crossing“, by John Creed
The Sirius Crossing is a tense , gripping and intelligent thriller from one of the Ireland ’s finest writers . John Creed is a pseudonym of Eoin McNamee. John Creed's first novel to feature Intelligence Officer Jack Valentine and a fast -moving tale that largely takes place in Ireland and a remote Scottish island involving the IRA and American Special forces.
Jack Valentine is a British spy working for MRU a shady government intelligence organisation . He is sent into Northern Ireland to recover a file that vanished over twenty years ago by an aborted US operation. In so doing he runs into his former girlfriend, Deidre and her brother (and close friend) Liam Mellows. Mellows is an IRA enforcer on the run from both the Provisional as well as the RUC following a rumour that he's become an informer. Valentine recovers the file and soon discovers that its contents are very sensitive and linked to some shady US Government types . He and Mellows go on the run pursued by a conglomerate of vicious acronyms consisting of CIA, RUC, IRA as well as Valentine's own organisation the MRU. Aided by a veteran smuggler Regan, they flee Ireland in Valentine's old trawler and head off into the North Sea.
The real theme of the book is how friendships can survive when they are forged in the brutal world of death and treachery that forms the world of espionage and covert war. The story is told in first person who allows the cynicism of Valentine to flow and contrast abrasively with the brutality that he has seen in his life.
The characters are well delineated and the skulduggery plausible. The conclusion is full of pyrotechnics and gives the tale a cathartic flourish after much brutality and violence
The Sirius Crossing is a seriously good thriller from a writer who despite at times bordering on the literary certainly cooks up a real contemporary espionage brew . It grips from the introductory paragraph and keeps you clinging on like the characters battling the storm that lies at the centre of this tale. I highly recommend The Sirius Crossing if you like deeply character driven espionage tales.
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