Declan Burke fled Ireland forty years ago and never looked back. Now settled in New York, he thinks he s put the old country behind him, until he reads the obituary of one Cathal Murphy. The obituary, he sees at once, is not about Murphy at all. It is a coded indictment of Burke s own life. And an announcement of his impending death. Halifax lawyer Monty Collins investigates the obit with its allusions to Burke s IRA past. Collins gets no help from Burke, who good soldier to the end keeps the silence of the grave. But Burke s denial becomes harder to maintain following a