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Echobeat

Joe Joyce's novel Echoland was set in WWII-era Dublin, a divided city with some looking to Britain as an ally and others to Germany. It introduced young lieutenant Paul Duggan, who was drafted into the army's intelligence division, G2, and put on the German desk. Assigned to investigate a German spy who appears to do nothing noteworthy other than write ambiguous letters, Duggan soon got sidetracked. With a twist that brought Irish politics to the forefront, Duggan attempted to help his uncle, a Fianna Fáil backbench TD, in the search for his missing daughter who had possibly been kidnapped. The young lieutenant delved into the double-dealing worlds of spies and politics, where ruthlessness, deviousness and occasional violence prevail, before confronting a surprising secret that challenged everything he had grown up believing. The sequel, Echboeat, picks up Duggan's wartime story where Echoland left off.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 344
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9781909718579
  • Genres
  • historical
  • Release date
  • 2014