The City of Strangers. Michael Russell

      

      MICHAEL RUSSELL

       The City of Strangers

       Copyright

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      First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 2013

      Copyright © Michael Russell 2013

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      This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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      Source ISBN: 9781847563477

      Ebook Edition © October 2013 ISBN: 9780007460076

      Version: 2019-04-04

      For

      Anya, Seren, Finn, Coinneach and Marta

      And the Silver Meteor

      To the Pennsylvania Station

      Send but a song oversea for us,

      Heart of their hearts who are free,

      Heart of their singer to be for us

      More than our singing can be.

       ‘To Walt Whitman in America’

       Algernon Charles Swinburne

      RPACN FEBSA HOGYH VTNOY IKSAO RYHOI VAUAR OAOIR OKWGQ MWAYA IERIL IETTM NNSTN ATAUA OIETH ARGTR YLHRA NASRI FOOAA AIALL TINYN LMENV NOOYG EEHOS OAOET GECTN: List of spies noted. Am forwarding it to Intelligence Director for his information. Are you able to carry out annihilation of all spies?

      From Decoding the IRA

      Table of Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

Copyright

       Dedication

       Epigraph

Part One: Uptown

1. Pallas Strand

2. Fulton Market

3. Kilranelagh

4. Corbawn Lane

5. Inns Quay

6. West Thirty-Sixth Street

       7. The Yankee Clipper

       8. Fifty-Second Street

       9. Centre Street

       10. Pennsylvania Six-Five-Thousand

       11. Fifth Avenue

       12. The Hampshire House

       Part Two: Upstate

       13. Locust Valley

       14. Central Park

       15. Flushing Meadows

       16. A Hundred and Twenty-Fifth Street

       17. The Waldorf-Astoria

       18. Route Eleven

       19. Mexico Bay

       20. The Empire State

       21. A Hundred and Sixteenth Street

       22. Saint Patrick’s Cathedral

       Part Three: Upstroke

       23. Dún Laoghaire

       24. Béarra

       25. The Four Courts

       26. Henrietta