Adrian McKinty : (2) " When a locked-room mystery doesn’t work, the solution makes you groan, and the book gets hurled across the room. " - Adrian McKinty " Every publisher or agent I’ve ever met told me the same thing – that Irish readers don’t want to read about the bad old days of the Troubles; neither do the English and Americans – they only want to read about the Ireland of The Quiet Man, when red-haired widows are riding bicycles and everyone else is on a horse. " - Adrian McKinty