The Year of the Gun, H.B. Lyle
The Year of the Gun, H.B. Lyle
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The Year of the Gun
A Sherlock Holmes themed spy thriller from the series shortlisted for the SpyMasters Book Prize 2025

Author: H.B. Lyle

Series: Irregular

Narrator: Michael Fenner

Unabridged: 8 hr 15 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/05/2020

Synopsis

SPY HUNTER SHORTLISTED FOR THE SPYMASTERS BEST ESPIONAGE NOVEL OF 2025, ALONGSIDE THE PEACOCK AND THE SPARROW BY I.S. BERRY AND GABRIEL'S MOON BY WILLIAM BOYD

'Irresistible' Guardian

'Impressive' Daily Mail

'Captivating' Mick Herron

1912. Released from the Secret Service, Wiggins sets out for New York and his lost lover Bela. But after an altercation on board, he finds himself among the low-life of Ireland's poorest city, Dublin.

Wiggins falls in with gangster Patrick O'Connell and is soon driving the boss's girlfriend around town. Molly wants O'Connell to support her Irish nationalist cause - a cause needing guns to defeat the British - and then they go to find them in America.

Finally, Wiggins can solve the mystery of Bela - and meet his old mentor, Sherlock Holmes, in a story of escalating intrigue, danger and violence.

About H.B. Lyle

H.B. Lyle lives in South London with his partner and their twin daughters. After a career infeature film development, he took an MA in creative writing, followed by a PhD, at the University ofEast Anglia, an experience which led to the creation of The Irregular. He also writes screenplaysand teaches undergraduates.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Elaine

I would like to thank Netgalley and Hodder & Stoughton for an advance copy of The Year of the Gun, the third novel to feature former Baker Street irregular Wiggins. Wiggins has left his job with the British Secret Service and is on his way to New York to find his lost love, Bela. Unfortunately for hi......more

Goodreads review by Bonnie

The Irregular is at it again. From London to Derry to New York City, Wiggins keeps trying to figure out what the rich want. And why is he going along with them any way? Oh, right. Food and shelter. More depressing than the first two volumes, but still a fair read. Once again a cliff hanger. Will Wig......more

Goodreads review by Yosef

This book, is part of an ongoing series, featuring a grown up Wiggins of Baker Street Irregulars fame. Sherlock Holmes also makes an appearance in this entry.......more

Goodreads review by Annarella

An entertaining and gripping historical mystery that kept me hooked. A well researched and vivid historical background, interesting characters and a solid mystery that kept me guessing. I hope to read other stories featuring these characters. Recommended. Many thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for t......more

Quotes

Lyle's series of thrillers featuring Wiggins, once one of Sherlock Holmes's Baker Street Irregulars, are coming on splendidly . . . Skilfully mixing real history with action sequences worthy of Lee Child, this is historical crime-writing at its best John Williams, Mail on Sunday

Full throttle, highly entertaining historical hokum, delivering entertainment in spades Myles McWeeney, Irish Independent

Lyle's unique blend of real history, inventive storytelling and characters borrowed from Conan Doyle is exhilarating... an action packed historical thriller... This is a series I hope will run and run New Books Magazine

The third outing in H.B. Lyle's engaging series of historical thrillers... The story rattles along at pace, the characters are engaging and the fight scenes burst with action. But Lyle's great strength is in his depiction of time and place; from its stinking tenements, where babies cry from hunger, to its sinister docks and upmarket brothels, the Edwardian city - then still part of Britain - is brought to life in all its squalid, magnificent glory Financial Times

A bruising, gritty and very entertaining adventure amid the slums and salons of 1912 Dublin, a city about to explode Ed O'Loughlin

Impressive period detail and sharp dialogue add charm to the strong plot Daily Mail (on The Irregular)

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