Wonderland

Dublin's gangland erupts with a vicious double murder of two Albanian men on a Dublin street in broad daylight. A Dublin crime boss becomes more uneasy over his alliance with Belfast politicos who helped place him near the top of Ireland's drug smuggling industry. A teenaged school girl dead of an overdose in a park in a swanky Dublin suburb. Inspector Minogue is going off the rails after a suspect he was interviewing in a routine fraud investigation kills herself.
Welcome to interesting times in Dublin. You'll be in a city roaring, spinning and racing full throttle to the future, a place where the tiger economy sends seismic shocks through every level of society. Minogue's adopted eternal city is a place of wealth and runaway heroin addiction, of movie stars, rock idols and gangster chique. By day the din of construction rings out over the crush of traffic; by night, the crowds spill into the streets, alight with the glitter of high-end restaurants and the glare of all-night clubs. The Irish have arrived, Dublin seems to shout. The bad times are gone and the future's arrived brighter and better than anyone could have imagined. Welcome to Wonderland.

'If there are authors better at chronicling the events of modern Ireland, I haven't yet read them. Brady's best so far'. (Globe and Mail Canada)