The Murderer and the Taoiseach

This remains an incredible and compelling story more than forty years on. It is done justice with Harry McGee’s keen eye for detail and is told with great style * Matt Cooper *
This gripping book reads like a thriller - but is sadly all too true. Considerable research and original material are skilfully woven into a fast-paced, brilliant account of shocking crimes, and of the dramatic political crisis which they caused. A highly readable and important book * David McCullagh *
GUBU marked the loss of Irish innocence, a collision of politics and evil that was as shambolic as it was banal. McGee’s narrative is brisk and luminous, cracking with detail, characters and analysis, bringing the twin legacies of Malcolm Macarthur and Charles Haughey to a gripping finale * Tony Connelly *
Journalist Harry McGee goes a lot deeper in his compelling new analysis of those murders * Irish Independent *
The book is strongest on the political fallout from the case * Irish Times *
impressively researched and vividly written … This is a Gubu book for very different reasons, gripping, unpretentious, brilliant, and unputdownable * Sunday Business Post *
McGee is a natural storyteller with a telling eye for detail, and he recounts the tale with gusto * Irish Examiner *

Harry McGee is a political correspondent with The Irish Times and previously worked for the Irish Examiner, the Sunday Tribune, RTE and the current affairs magazine Magill, which he edited. He has written and presented TV documentaries in English and Irish for RTE and TG4, and he produced the podcast series, GUBU, for The Irish Times. A native of Salthill, Galway, he is a graduate of the University of Galway and the King’s Inns. The Murderer and the Taoiseach is his first book.

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