Warrior Boy and the Chase of Death
Chapter 1 My Enemy’s Enemy Keep your friends close... It was six o clock in the morning and Chief Superintendent Fintan McColl glumly stared out of the window at the dawn coming up over Dublin Bay. The funeral last month had been an ordeal. McColl wondered how he had gotten through the last three months as Sive’s health had deteriorated. They had married late in life and had no children. That at least had been a mercy for them both. Her cancer had eroded her steadily day by day. He had taken a year’s leave of absence to mind her at home. That turned out to be over-optimistic. She worsened rapidly early in the period of leave. Soon she was in the Hospice on palliative care. She suffered silently and never made it difficult for him. Now she was gone, and he remained to face the world again. With Chief Superintendent Breslin dead and Inspector Callan having had some type of a mental breakdown the Commissioner was asking him to return to Dublin Castle earlier tha...