![]() ![]() He never spent much time weighing up the intricacies of whether the people concerned and the wider society and the greater good would be best served by him taking on the investigation.” On the job, he took cases because they got assigned to him. It is, Cal realises, “the first time that he’s made the decision to take on a case. ![]() When Trey learns that Cal had been a police officer, he begs for his help. No one seems to care apart from the scrawny, angry Trey, the middle and largely ignored child of a large family who have been written off by the tight-knit local community. ![]() The new thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Wych Elm And inevitably, before long, Cal finds himself caught up in a missing person case.īrendan, a local boy from the resident family of ne’er-do-wells, has disappeared. Retired detective Cal Hooper lives his dream of moving to a remote village in rural Ireland in The Searcher (Photo: Geography Photos/Universal Images Group/Getty)Ī man has to do what a man has to do – French has great fun referencing the westerns of Johns Ford and Huston, big, brawling American men who were proud of their Irish roots. Of course, we all know it doesn’t matter how much Cal tries to bury himself in doing up his cottage, sanding down old furniture and aimlessly shooting the breeze with the locals, it will all be to no avail. ![]()
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