Wire synopsis

When my friend Cassandra died at the age of 28, I started to write a story entitled Green and Gold. Eight years later, and with lots of soul searching, this became the novel Down to the Wire.

Set in Ireland, Down to the Wire is a tale of death, madness, tarot cards and terrorists.

Drowning in self pity and malt whisky, Rob Collins, a respected freelance journalist, is struggling to cope with a death in the family. Rob’s clairvoyant wife Siobhan foretold the death in a tarot reading but Rob, a born sceptic, believes only in malt spirits. He attributes her prediction to unfortunate probability but ironically is tormented by ghosts from the past and eventually starts to question his own sanity.

A painting that seems to have a life of its own and the poetic advice of W B Yeats are all that stand between Rob and the wrath of the criminal underworld when he falls under the mystic influence of the wife of a reformed terrorist.

Once the painting reveals where the real danger lies, Rob realises that while trust and belief come from within, there are some things, which go way beyond probability.

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