' Mc Kinty is one of Britain's great contemporary crime writers & the Sean Duffy books are his masterpiece' Ian Rankin This time help isn't coming This time Duffy has to save himself Belfast 1988 a man has been shot in the back with an arrow It ain't Injuns & it isn't Robin Hood But uncovering exactly who has done it will take Detective Inspector Sean Duffy down his most dangerous road yet a road that leads to three masked gunmen forcing Duffy to dig his own grave Hunted by forces unknown threatened by Internal Affairs & with his relationship on the rocks Duffy will need all his wits to get out of this investigation in one piece SPINETINGLER AWARD WINNERNED KELLY AWARD WINNERBARRY AWARD WINNERSTEEL DAGGER AWARD SHORTLISTEDEDGAR AWARD SHORTLISTEDTHEAKSTON'S AWARD SHORTLISTEDANTHONY AWARD NOMINEERAIN DOGS WAS WINNER OF THE EDGAR AWARD 2017