Dan Starkey is a journalist in Belfast, who shares with his wife Patricia an appetite for drinking and dancing. Then Dan meets Margaret, a beautiful and apparently impoverished student, and things begin to get out of hand. And then Margaret is murdered. This novel won the 1994 Betty Trask Prize.
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Diese Serie begleitet einen Journalisten, der sich in der turbulenten Welt des nordirischen Konflikts zurechtfindet. Mit jedem Fall taucht er tiefer in die politischen Ränkespiele und persönlichen Dramen ein, die sein Leben und seine Stadt prägen. Die Leser können packende Recherchen erwarten, bei denen die Grenzen zwischen richtig und falsch ständig verschwimmen. Es ist ein fesselnder Einblick in den Journalismus in einer Krisenzeit.
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