Dry Bones A Novel Author:Peter Quinn Macavity Award for Best First Mystery Novel — Strand Critics Award for Best First Novel — Fintan Dunne, the detective at the center of The Man Who Never Returned and Hour of the Cat, is back in this spellbinding story of an ill-fated OSS mission into the heart of the Eastern front and its consequences more than a decade after the war's end. As the... more » Red Army continues its unstoppable march toward Berlin in the winter of 1945, Dunne and his fellow soldier Dick Van Hull volunteer for a dangerous drop behind enemy lines to rescue a team of OSS officers trying to abet the Czech resistance. When the plan goes south, Dunne and Van Hull uncover a secret that will change both of their lives.
A literary thriller that will keep you guessing until the very end, Dry Bones completes the trilogy started in Hour of the Cat. Blending fact and fiction into a thoroughly compelling whole, this is Quinn at his very best.« less