Imagine that you’ve just dropped your child at the bus stop. A panicked stranger calls your phone to tell you that your child has been kidnapped. The stranger then explains that their child has also been kidnapped, but by a completely different stranger.

The only way to get your child back is to kidnap another child.

Your child will be released only when the next victim’s parents kidnap yet another child. And most important, the stranger explains: If you don’t kidnap a child, or if the next parents don’t kidnap a child, your child will be murdered.

You are now part of THE CHAIN.

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Profiles

• “From Uber driving to huge book deal: Adrian McKinty’s life-changing phone call” — The Guardian
• “Adrian McKinty Tries to Get Some Writing Done in Kafka’s Old Office” — Lit Hub

Reviews

• “This summer’s buzziest thriller, The Chain starkly examines parental desperation” — Entertainment Weekly
• “To Save Her Abducted Daughter, This Heroine Has to Kidnap a New Victim” — The New York Times
• “‘The Chain’ Asks: How Far Would You Go For Your Child?” — NPR.org
• “Sean Duffy series: ‘crime writing at its most visceral and cathartic’” — The Irish Times

Videos

• “Adrian McKinty shows how to make a vodka gimlet – the Sean Duffy way” — YouTube
• “Adrian McKinty talks about his Troubles Trilogy and his favorite way to have a draft of Guinness” — YouTube