The Setanta Operation

It was worst when it happened to a child. Sean Colgan was only twelve when he rode the rumbling skateboard down Malt Street that grey Wednesday afternoon.
Even Robbie Driscoll, kneeling at a boarded window with the crossed hairs of his telescopic sight zeroed on the boy's head, felt a twinge, remembering his own childhood...
So begins the nightmare of an operation codenamed Setanta: an operation that will take the new hero-of-heroes across the ocean to the America of Mafia hard men, smuggled guns, traps and betrayal. In his world there are generals and footsoldiers, women who wait - and women who kill; men to whom violence is alien, and men to whom it is bread and butter; and men to whom it is caviare...