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The Last Days of the Tiger

The Last Days of the Tiger

Author(s): Pat Mullan

Location(s): Connemara, Dublin, New York City (NYC)

Genre(s): Fiction

Era(s): Modern

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Burnt-out lawyer Ed Burke flees New York, a failed marriage, and a high pressure career as a criminal attorney and returns home to Dublin, Europe’s most happening city. Hand-in-hand with the new prosperity, a culture of ruthless corruption has taken root and threatens to pervade the highest levels of government in Celtic Tiger Ireland and the EU. Ed’s new job, defending a prominent developer in a tribunal investigating the rezoning of prime residential property, draws him into the world of Ireland’s elite movers and shakers who will stop at nothing to achieve their aims. He is also drawn into a passionate affair with an old flame, Pia, now the glamorous wife of a corrupt and powerful political leader. As his infatuation turns into love, Pia is murdered in her own bed, and Ed has no doubt that her heartless, power-hungry husband is behind this murder. Edmund Burke’s quest to avenge Pia and free himself from a troubled past becomes an adrenaline-pumping race to save Ireland from the grip of a cabal of corrupt power brokers. He must find his way through a tangled web of lies, deceit and murder as he matches his wits against the Machiavellian schemes of the rich, the famous and the powerful who seek to mould the future of Europe and the West.

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Lots of insight into political, legal and economic matters. The action takes place in New York & Dublin, but there are the occasional forays into gorgeous Connemara and these are particularly evocative – Shay...

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