The book is divided into three sections – an exciting …

The book is divided into three sections – an exciting police procedural start-off, as the robbery and its aftermath are detailed, and the long stakeouts involved in finding the right combination of men and missing money; then a detailed examination of the Irish and IRA connections that may or may not hold clues; and finally the story of Gibbons, a boxer on the skids whose saga carries undeniably romantic and bittersweet hues.