The Brendan Cleary Series
Have you met Brendan Cleary? He grew up on the turbulent streets of Belfast, angry and hardened. A lot to be angry for, little to be happy for. Being born into a family like his, he didn’t have the best start in life.
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Bloody Thursday #1
Have you met Brendan Cleary? He grew up on the turbulent streets of Belfast, angry and hardened. A lot to be angry for, little to be happy for. Being born into a family like his, he didn’t have the best start in life. His father’s side of the family was part of the Catholic I.R.A. leadership in Belfast. His mother’s three older brothers were ex British soldiers who helped form the outlawed Protestant U.D.A. Being taken away every summer to a secret location, Brendan hated his father for putting him through a rigorous training regime, doing everything but break his spirit. It turns out everything his father was doing was preparing Brendan for the struggle of his life. A fight that will see Brendan thrust into a set of circumstances with only a British agent on his side. Together, they race against the clock to stop a chain of events that will propel Northern Ireland back into it’s recent past. Upon discovering a secret deal between the British and Irish governments, a deal that will bring in to question everything you think you know about who’s running the world, Brendan and Agent Lorna Woodward must bring the two governments to the attention of the international community before Her Majesty’s number one hitman takes them out… Will they survive and prevent a repeat of the previous generation’s sorrow? When is enough enough?
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Best Served Cold #2
Brendan and Lorna made it out of Belfast, alive.
Their names cleared, but still wanted for questioning by the very government that served them up for execution. Six months have gone by, and they find themselves in Lake Como, Italy. Part holiday, part mission. Lorna finds her old contacts in the intelligence world useful and discovers Agent Short – the man who killed Brendan’s father – is in the area.
What starts as a simple revenge mission quickly escalates. Lorna gets kidnapped. Brendan learns the reason Short is in the country. And it’s not for a holiday.The Botticelli family have contracted Short to carry out a hit. A contract that could destroy or salvage the criminal organisation that’s hanging by a thread. How does Brendan save Lorna, and avenge his father’s death without getting on the wrong side of one of the most powerful families in Italy?
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Good Samaritans #3
Brendan should feel happy about equalling the score for his dead father. But assassinating Agent Short has done nothing but leave him with more nightmares.Tired of waking up in cold sweats, Brendan and Lorna return to Belfast to bury his past, not expecting to cross paths with a lady on the verge of suffering the same fate as Brendan’s mother. A parent reaching the end of her tether. The lady introduces them to the developing world of human trafficking in the city, brought in by the Romanian mafia. Brendan and Lorna decide they can’t ignore what they know, and with the lady’s help, they decide to bring an end to the mafia’s Irish branch. As Brendan gets close to the head of the Romanian family, he realises the Europeans are planning a massacre, unlike anything in Belfast since the height of the troubles. And the targets: paramilitaries. A lot of blood is about to stain the streets unless Brendan and Lorna can do something...
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