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Ructions O'Hare volume 1
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A fast-paced, suspenseful thriller based on one of the biggest and still unsolved bank robberies in history ... On December 20, 2004, £26.5 million ($36 million) from the Northern Bank in Belfast, Northern Ireland--literally the entire contents of the bank's vault--disappeared overnight. It was such a dramatic heist that many thought only the IRA could have pulled it off, but the case was never solved. Now, an actual former IRA bank robber has written...
2) Northern spy
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"A producer at the Belfast bureau of the BBC, Tessa is at work one day when the news of another raid comes on the air. The IRA may have gone underground after the Good Friday agreement, but they never really went away, and lately, bomb threats, arms drops, and helicopters floating ominously over the city have become features of everyday life. As the anchor requests the public's help in locating those responsible for this latest raid - a robbery at...
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"Orphaned during the Second World War, Aelish and Isabel McGuire-- known as the twins of Belfast--are given over to the austere care of the Sisters of Bethlehem. Though they are each all the other has, the girls are propelled in opposite directions as they grow up. Rebellious Isabel turns her back on the church and Ireland, traveling to Newfoundland where she pursues a perilous yet independent life. Devout Aelish chooses to remain in Northern Ireland...
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"Ructions O'Hare returns in a thriller -- based on one of history's greatest unsolved heists -- pitting him against the IRA, Interpol, and neo-Nazis... When WWII ended, the allies discovered that a huge amount of gold bullion plundered by Nazi Reichsmarschall Hermann Goering had gone missing. Some believed the gold had been hidden in a train box car in Poland. Others that it was secreted in Lake Toplitz in the Austrian Alps. And a few thought it was...
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Ministry of SUITs volume 2
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Twelve-year-old Jack Pease and his partner, Trudy, operatives of the Ministry of Strange, Unusual, and Impossible Things, investigate odd things happening at Belfast's aquarium.
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