Terry Brankin Has a Gun, Paperback

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Terry Brankin loves his wife, but it's a bloody nuisance that a cold-case investigator is trying to pin him for a long past IRA bombing that killed a young girl. His wife Kathleen can't take it. He tells her that things were different then. She tells him he must confess. He'd only get two years under the Belfast Agreement and she'll stand by him, but she leaves him to give him time to mull it over. But then Kathleen is attacked. Every house in the Brankin property portfolio is petrol-bombed on the same night. Something is going on that's even bigger than they reckoned. And Terry thinks it's to do with the cold case, the bombing, and the dead child. He reckons old friends in the IRA are telling him to keep quiet. It's time to talk to old comrades--and Terry still has a gun. Fast-paced and thrilling, this powerful Troubles novel explores significant legacy issues of the northern conflict and how past deeds can never truly be forgotten.

Malachi O'Doherty was born in Muff, County Donegal, Ireland, and grew up in Belfast. He was a teacher to Libyan soldiers, a ghostwriter for an Indian guru, a contributor to BBC Northern Ireland, and a regular writer for the Belfast Telegraph. Much of his writing career coincided with the Northern Irish Troubles. He has written numerous books about that period, including Fifty Years On: The Troubles and the Struggle for Change in Northern Ireland (Atlantic Books, 2020) and Gerry Adams: An Unauthorised Life (Faber and Faber, 2018).