Daniel Loman has had a very peculiar day. Not only is he being pursued by an extra-terrestrial robot, but he’s been whisked away to Cuba by the military and is in cahoots with the CIA.
Jones is the cop whose desk Daniel's case lands on. The desk far away from his role as an LAPD homicide detective and the past he's trying to forget.
Toby is the mysterious government official who either wants to help or get his hands on the tech.
Daniel must keep running. But he can't run for ever and one day, surely, the robot will catch him.
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Richard Murphy was one of Ireland’s most distinguished poets. He is particularly known for poems that draw on the landscape and history of the west of Ireland. His Collected Poems (Gallery Press) was published in 2000, his acclaimed autobiography The Kick (Granta Books) in 2003. His awards include the Cheltenham Award and the American-Irish Foundation Award.
‘Richard Murphy’s verse is classical in a way that demonstrates what the classical strengths really are. It combines a high music with simplicity, force and directness in dealing with the world of action. He has the gift of epic objectivity: behind his poems we feel not the assertion of his personality, but the actuality of events, the facts and sufferings of history’ (Ted Hughes).