Book review „The Sirius Crossing“, by John Creed
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