Detective Neil "Hock" Hockaday of New York's elite SCUM(Street Crimes Unit-Manhattan) is the protaganist in Adcock's Drown All the Dogs, Hock discovers a single cue to the father he never knew, an Irish soldier who vanished in WWII: a photograph with an unfamiliar verse of poetry and a strange medallion. Hick boards a jet to Ireland and we are the lucky observers, as said by O.B. McCormick if the New York Daiiy News of "A raucous, rollicking roadshow....The plot's as big as Galway Bay [and] Adcock's version of Ireland's mad, sad history makes as much sense as anyone's." ( )

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