After Ian Murphy's life-long friend, Kieran Fitzpatrick, dies unexpectedly, Ian's brief sobriety is shattered. With his life adrift, Ian feels incapable of fulfilling Kieran's last request to serve as a mentor to his 22-year-old nephew, William. To honor Kieran, Ian reluctantly accepts the role, never realizing how important this relationship will become.
 During this turmoil, Ian attempts to ease the guilt he bears for his covert IRA past by encouraging Northern Ireland's Catholics to vote for the Sinn Fein candidates in the upcoming election. While the election is successful, Ian's guilt is as bad as ever. To free himself from this burden, Ian decides to offer an act of contrition to the Irish people, a memoir stage play. 
 Kieran's nephew directs this live act of remorse. The stage play *Dead Reckoning* reveals Ian's secret life in the IRA. Will Ian's repentance for his complicity in the horrors of The Troubles cleanse his guilt and allow him to begin a new life?

Dead Reckoning (Irish Troubles)

Literature & Fiction

Rex Owens

Genre Fiction

Three Towers Press (an imprint of HenschelHAUS)

Book 2 of Rex Owens' Irish Troubles Series Searching for atonement, author Ian Murphy drafts the Good Friday Agreement in 1998 ending the 30-year Troubles in Ireland. Murphy's years in the Provisional Irish Republican Army and his battle with depression cast him into a hellish darkness. He finds atonement elusive and begins on a path for public redemption.
 In the fall of 1998, British authorities propose building additional peace walls in Belfast to create a self-imposed apartheid between Catholics and Protestants. Northern Ireland politicians are struggling to form a government and see peace walls as interference and sabotaging their work to create an independent nation. Northern Ireland's political leaders challenge Murphy to help put a stop to building additional peace walls and give meaning to the peace accord he drafted. Murphy sees this as a path to find the redemption he desperately desires.

Out of Darkness (2018 Edition)

Book 1 of the Rex Owens' Irish Troubles Series 
Ian Padraic Murphy harbors a scandalous secret. 
 To avenge the death of his best friend in a Belfast raid, Ian joined the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) and kept this a secret for 30 years. 
 When he meets investigative reporter Eileen Donohue, their friendship blossoms into a love affair. Eileen inadvertently discovers the man she thought was a reclusive novelist is actually the brain trust for the IRA. 
 Heartbroken and outraged, Eileen betrays her lover by disclosing his secret in Ireland s leading newspaper. 
 Driven by guilt and remorse, Ian atones for his years in the IRA by working with Sinn Fein to negotiate the 1998 Peace Accord, which ended The Troubles in Ireland. 
 After deserting the IRA, Ian's own troubles are far from over when they order his assassination. The assignment is given to none other than his close friend, IRA Commander, Kieran Fitzpatrick. 
Will Ian pay the ultimate price for disloyalty to the IRA?

Murphy's Troubles (2018 Edition)

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Dead Reckoning (Irish Troubles)

Out of Darkness (2018 Edition)

Murphy's Troubles (2018 Edition)