Book description
The strange and brutal murder of a young African man in Dublin reveals
the dark practices of twisted killer... Shad, a young African man, is
attacked and left for dead on the Dublin Mountains. He crawls to the
nearest house and raises the alarm, but he later dies in hospital.
Inspector Quilligan and Molly Power, of the Irish Police Force Murder
Squad, launch an inquiry into this deeply disturbing murder. Was Shad
the victim of a racist attack, sadism, a punishment, or some mysterious
sacrificial ritual? His younger brother, Jude, is grief-stricken and
mystified by Shad's cruel death. He swears a solemn oath to find his
brother's killer, even if it costs him his life... Andrew Nugent is a
former practising barrister. As a Benedictine monk of Glenstal Abbey,
Limerick, he was headmaster of the Abbey School before spending nine
years in a foundation monastery in Nigeria. He has travelled extensively
in Europe, the US and the Middle East, as well as in West Africa.
