Belfast, 1985. Amid the Troubles, Detective Sean Duffy, a Catholic cop in the Protestant Royal Ulster Constabulary, struggles with burnout as he investigates a brutal double murder and suicide. Did Michael Kelly really shoot his parents at point-blank and then jump off a nearby cliff? A suicide note points to this conclusion, but Duffy suspects even more sinister circumstances. He soon discovers that Kelly was present at a decadent Oxford party where a cabinet minister's daughter died of a heroin overdose, which may or may not have something to do with Kelly's subsequent death. New evidence leads elsewhere: gun runners, arms dealers, the British government, and a rogue American agent with a fake identity. Duffy thinks he's getting somewhere when agents from MI5 show up at his doorstep and try to recruit him, thus taking him off the investigation. Duffy is in it up to his neck, doggedly pursuing a case that may finally prove his undoing. 1. A Scanner Darkly 2. A Problem with Mr. Dwyer 3. Murder Was the Case That They Gave Me 4. The New Blood 5. A Supposedly Fun Thing That I'll Never Do Again 6. Tide Burial 7. The Girl in Interview Room One 8. Police Station Blues 9. Contact High 10. The Offer 11. The Suicides Are Piling Up 12. Over the Water 13. Gun Street Girl 14. Even the Wasps Cannot Find My Eyes 15. Gottfried Habsburg 16. The Third Man 17. Interrogating Deirdre Ferris 18. Nigel Vardon 19. Special Branch Make a Scene 20. Is That All There Is to a Fire? 21. The Quiet American 22. Davenport Blues 23. Stasis 24. The Mysterious Mr. Connolly 25. Convincing Nigel Vardon 26. The Confidential Telephone 27. Our Business Now Is North 28. Blue Tigers 29. Flow My Tears the Policeman SaidEpilogue: A Year and a Half LaterAfterword.