After a fine New York Saturday spent over too many drinks with Police Captain Davy Mogaill, Detective Neil Hockaday was no further enlightened about his father, who had vanished during World War II. Mogaill's reluctance to divulge details was matched by that of Father Tim Kelly, who pressed a strange medallion into Hock's hand - without any explanation. On Sunday night, Hock and his beautiful leading lady, actress Ruby Flagg, were on a trans-Atlantic flight to Ireland: summoned to visit Hock's dying Uncle Liam, and perhaps to learn more about his own father. But hardly had they set foot on the land Hock had always known as "the other side" when the pull of memory became a whirlpool even stronger than ties of blood....A hero of New York's elite S.C.U.M. patrol (Street Crimes Unit-Manhattan), Hock doesn't leave home without his badge or his instincts - but soon he's wishing for his gun. His traveler's welcome features front-row seats for a brutal murder, then hostile questioning by the Dublin police, followed soon after by news from New York of Father Tim's shocking death and Davy Mogaill's disappearance. Suspicious minds are now linking Hock to crimes on both sides of the water. And, at his Uncle Liam's house in Dun Laoghaire, surprises abound: Liam's opulent lifestyle, his cantankerous servants, his ruddy good health.Hock has nowhere to hide in a country where a man in a Yankees cap is as rare as a stranger without a story. Yet he's determined to stay for Aidan Hockaday - the father who stepped into the mist before Hock was old enough to know him, leaving only a photo with a poem penned on the back, and a voice that speaks in Hock's ever more vivid dreams. Aided by a riddle-spouting cook, a tinker pickpocket, and the ever-resourceful Ruby Flagg, Hock edges closer to his father's shocking secrets. But only when he claims his history's harsh embrace, and raises a glass among the men in farmer's tweeds around the village tavern's tables, will the dogs of war leave him to grapple with the truth.In this stunning novel of crime, deceit, and murder, Edgar Award-winning author Thomas Adcock proves himself a true Irish storyteller. Drown All the Dogs, the third novel featuring New York Detective Neil Hockaday, confirms Adcock's reputation as one of our most imaginative crime writers. Read Less