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Midnight Runner
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First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 2002
Copyright © Harry Patterson 2002
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Source ISBN: 9780008124915
Ebook Edition © August 2015 ISBN: 9780007381586
Version: 2015-07-20
Death is the Midnight Runner.
Arab proverb
Contents
LONDON BOSTON WASHINGTON LONDON
Daniel Quinn was a good Ulster name. Belfast Irish Catholic, as a young man, his grandfather had fought with Michael Collins during the Irish War of Independence, and then, a price on his head, he’d fled to America in 1920.
He’d become a construction worker in New York and Boston, but it was as a member