The Wild Colonial Boy
A Novel
James Hynes
- 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
- Jimmy's
- 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
- Jimmy's
- bloody
- mission
- by
- his
- cousin
- Maire,
- Coogan's
- sharp-tongued
- wife.
- Soon
- they
- are
- all
- drawn
- into
- the
- unforgiving
- labyrinth
- of
- modern
- terrorism,
- borne
- toward
- a
- horrific
- and
- fatal
- climax
- in
- James
- Hynes's
- thrilling
- The**Wild
- Colonial Boy
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