{"id":12777,"date":"2017-04-09T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-09T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mickgb.com\/?p=12777"},"modified":"2024-04-08T00:30:38","modified_gmt":"2024-04-08T00:30:38","slug":"i-mbeal-an-phobail-cross-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mickgb.com\/en\/i-mbeal-an-phobail-cross-country\/","title":{"rendered":"I  mB\u00e9al  an  Phobail&#8230;.. Cross Country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;padding-top:0;margin-bottom:0pt;padding-bottom:0;line-height:2.4;font-weight:bold;font-size:24pt\">I  mB\u00e9al  an  Phobail<\/p><h2 style=\"margin-top:0pt;padding-top:0;margin-bottom:0pt;padding-bottom:0;line-height:2.4;font-weight:bold;font-size:18pt\">Cross Country&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..<span style=\"font-size:14pt\">c\u00e9adchl\u00f3<\/span>&#8230;&#8230;.<span style=\"font-size:14pt\">2008<\/span><\/h2><h3 style=\"margin-top:0pt;padding-top:0;margin-bottom:0pt;padding-bottom:0;line-height:2.4;font-weight:bold;font-size:14pt\">by<\/h3><p style=\"margin-top:0pt;padding-top:0;margin-bottom:0pt;padding-bottom:0;line-height:2.4\"><strong><span style=\"font-size:18pt\">James Patterson&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.<\/span><span style=\"font-size:14pt\">\u00a318.99<\/span><\/strong><\/p><h1 style=\"text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;padding-top:0;margin-bottom:0pt;padding-bottom:0;line-height:2.4;font-weight:bold;font-size:18pt\">***************************<\/h1><p style=\"margin-top:0pt;padding-top:0;margin-bottom:0pt;padding-bottom:0;line-height:2.4\"><span style=\"height:1em\"><span>.<\/span><\/span><\/p><h1 style=\"text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;padding-top:0;margin-bottom:0pt;padding-bottom:0;line-height:2.4;font-weight:bold;font-size:18pt\">Patterson chugainn ar\u00eds<\/h1><p style=\"text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;padding-top:0;margin-bottom:0pt;padding-bottom:0;line-height:2.4;font-size:14pt\">Sa leabhar seo \u00f3 pheann an scr\u00edbhneora ch\u00e1ili\u00fail, Mheirice\u00e1naigh, scaoileann an t-\u00fadar a sh\u00e1r-lorgaire, Alex Cross, ar th\u00f3ir an choirpigh mh\u00edthr\u00f3cairigh, chru\u00e1laigh, mhail\u00edsigh, Abidemi Sowande, a dtugta\u00ed \u201cAn T\u00edogair\u201d mar leasainm air, leasainm a bh\u00ed tuillte, agus tuillte go d\u00f3ighi\u00fail aige!<\/p><p style=\"text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;padding-top:0;margin-bottom:0pt;padding-bottom:0;line-height:2.4\"><span style=\"font-size:14pt\">James Patterson a chuir an leabhar seo i dtoll a ch\u00e9ile, agus n\u00ed call dom a r\u00e1, nach \u00e9 seo an ch\u00e9ad leabhar \u00f3 pheann an \u00fadair seo. B\u2019fh\u00e9idir gur chuimhin libh roinnt d\u00edobh seo &#8230;. Four Blind Mice; The Big Bad Wolf; Pop Goes the Weasel; Mary, Mary, agus tuilleadh den chine\u00e1l c\u00e9anna sin. Sea, agus caithfidh m\u00e9 a admh\u00e1il, gur bhain m\u00e9 fh\u00e9in taitneamh agus toit as chuile cheann acu, ach sc\u00e9al <\/span><span style=\"font-size:14pt\">de chine\u00e1l eile ar fad at\u00e1 \u00e1 r\u00edomh ag an \u00fadar sa leabhar seo, <\/span><strong><span style=\"font-size:14pt\">Cross Country<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size:14pt\">. F\u00e9ach mar a chuireann an t-\u00fadar \u00e9 ar an gc\u00e9ad leahanach den sc\u00e9al seo&#8230;.<\/span><\/p><h4 style=\"text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;padding-top:0;margin-bottom:0pt;padding-bottom:0;line-height:2.4;font-weight:bold;font-size:14pt;margin-left:36pt\"><span style=\"font-size:16pt\">\u201cGeorgetown, Washington, DC <\/span><\/h4><p style=\"text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;padding-top:0;margin-bottom:0pt;padding-bottom:0;line-height:2.4;margin-left:36pt\"><span style=\"font-size:14pt\">&#8230;&#8230;.The six-foot-six, two-hundred-fifty-pound killer known as \u201cThe Tiger\u201d had given out guns to his team \u2013 also a gram of cocaine to share, and the only instruction they would need tonight: <\/span><span style=\"font-size:14pt\"><em>The mother is mine. Kill the rest<\/em><\/span><span style=\"font-size:14pt\">.\u201d<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;padding-top:0;margin-bottom:0pt;padding-bottom:0;line-height:2.4;font-size:14pt\">Nig\u00e9ireach fir ba ea an T\u00edogar seo, murdar\u00f3ir m\u00edthr\u00f3caireach, agus sa ch\u00e1s seo, theastaigh uaidh an mh\u00e1thair a mhar\u00fa, toisc go raibh eolas \u00e1irithe faighte aice, le linn di seal a chaitheamh sa Nig\u00e9ir. Ellie Randall Cox ab ainm don mh\u00e1thair, agus cara de chuid Alex Cross ba ea \u00ed. <\/p><p style=\"text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;padding-top:0;margin-bottom:0pt;padding-bottom:0;line-height:2.4;font-size:14pt\"><strong><span style=\"font-size:18pt\">Iriseoir  Aifriceach<\/span><\/strong><\/p><p style=\"text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;padding-top:0;margin-bottom:0pt;padding-bottom:0;line-height:2.4;font-size:14pt\">Mar ad\u00fairt m\u00e9, chaith s\u00ed seal sa Nig\u00e9ir, agus le linn an ama sin, chuir s\u00ed aithne ar Iriseoir c\u00e1ili\u00fail, \u00e1iti\u00fail, arbh ainm di Adanne Tansi. Anois, d\u2019\u00e9irigh leis an Iriseoir seo roinnt mhaith eolais a bhaili\u00fa faoin chaimil\u00e9ireacht agus faoin uisce-faoi-thalamh a bh\u00ed ar si\u00fal sa Nig\u00e9ir, an  t-am sin, agus faoi na daoine \u00e1irithe a bh\u00ed taobh thiar den obair sin go l\u00e9ir. N\u00f3 n\u00ed h\u00e9 amh\u00e1in go raibh an T\u00edogair agus coirpigh eile p\u00e1irteach ann, ach ag an am gc\u00e9anna, bh\u00ed St\u00e1it, agus Polaiteoir\u00ed \u00e1irithe, s\u00e1ite go dt\u00ed na cluasa ann, agus b\u2019iad na f\u00f3rsa\u00ed sin a d\u2019fhostaigh an T\u00edogar, agus a leith\u00e9id\u00ed, lena ndrochobair fh\u00e9in a chur i gcr\u00edch d\u00f3ibh, agus i dtaobh an \u201cteam\u201d \u00fad, a luaitear san athlua thuas, n\u00ed raibh iontusan ach gas\u00fair, gas\u00fair a bhailigh an T\u00edogair \u00f3 dhileachtlanna d\u00fachasacha, agus ar dhein s\u00e9 fh\u00e9in iad a thraen\u00e1il le daoine a mhar\u00fa ar ord\u00fa uaidhsean.<\/p><p style=\"text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;padding-top:0;margin-bottom:0pt;padding-bottom:0;line-height:2.4;font-size:14pt\"><strong><span style=\"font-size:18pt\">Ionad an \u00c1ir<\/span><\/strong><\/p><p style=\"text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;padding-top:0;margin-bottom:0pt;padding-bottom:0;line-height:2.4;font-size:14pt\">N\u00ed call dom a r\u00e1, gur tarraing\u00edodh an Docht\u00fair Cross, an lorgaire c\u00e1ili\u00fail, isteach sa sc\u00e9al, agus chomh luath is a shroich s\u00e9 ionad an \u00e1ir, gur tugadh an drochsc\u00e9ala d\u00f3&#8230;<\/p><p style=\"text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;padding-top:0;margin-bottom:0pt;padding-bottom:0;line-height:2.4;font-size:14pt;margin-left:72pt\">\u201cFamily of five, all of them dead,\u201d Frescoe repeated himself. \u201cThe name\u2019s Cox. Father, Reeve. Mother, Eleanor. Son, James. All on the first floor. Daughters, Nicole and Clara, on the third.\u201d<\/p><p style=\"text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;padding-top:0;margin-bottom:0pt;padding-bottom:0;line-height:2.4;font-size:14pt\">Mar a luaigh m\u00e9 cheana, bh\u00edodh aithne ag Alex ar an mh\u00e1thair, blianta \u00f3 shoin, nuair a bh\u00ed an bheirt acu \u00f3g, agus nuair ba Ellie Randall a bh\u00ed ar an mbean seo, sular ph\u00f3s s\u00ed. <\/p><p style=\"text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;padding-top:0;margin-bottom:0pt;padding-bottom:0;line-height:2.4;font-size:14pt;margin-left:72pt\">I knew her \u2013 at least I once had.<\/p><p style=\"text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;padding-top:0;margin-bottom:0pt;padding-bottom:0;line-height:2.4;font-size:14pt;margin-left:72pt\">Long, long ago, Ellie had been my girlfriend when we\u2019d been students at Georgetown. She had probably been my first love. <\/p><p style=\"text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;padding-top:0;margin-bottom:0pt;padding-bottom:0;line-height:2.4;font-size:14pt;margin-left:72pt\">And now Ellie had been murdered, along with her family.\u201d<\/p><p style=\"text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;padding-top:0;margin-bottom:0pt;padding-bottom:0;line-height:2.4;font-size:14pt\"><strong><span style=\"font-size:18pt\">Turas  chun  na  hAifrice<\/span><\/strong><\/p><p style=\"text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;padding-top:0;margin-bottom:0pt;padding-bottom:0;line-height:2.4;font-size:14pt\">Chuaigh Alex i mbun oibre le fonn agus le flosc, agus i ndeireadh na d\u00e1la, tuigeadh d\u00f3, go mba mhaith an tseift \u00ed dul ar th\u00f3ir an T\u00edogair go dt\u00ed an t\u00edr as ar \u00e9alaigh s\u00e9, a ch\u00e9aduair. B\u2019in an f\u00e1th ar imigh s\u00e9 chun na Nig\u00e9ire. Casadh Meirice\u00e1naigh agus Nig\u00e9irigh air ansin, agus thaisteal s\u00e9 \u00f3 cheann ceann na t\u00edre sin, geall leis, agus \u00e9 ag iarraidh bonn an T\u00edogair a chur, ach ba \u00e9 an sc\u00e9al c\u00e9anna i gc\u00f3na\u00ed \u00e9. Bh\u00ed an T\u00edogar c\u00e9im chun tosaigh air, chuile bhabhta. Ba ghearr gur tuigeadh d\u00f3 n\u00e1r r\u00f3-shibhialta an \u00e1it \u00ed an Nig\u00e9ir ch\u00e9anna sin, n\u00f3 gabhadh ina phr\u00edos\u00fanach \u00e9, agus caitheadh go holc leis. Rinneadh \u00e9 a bhualadh, a bhascadh, agus a bhatr\u00e1il, agus tar \u00e9is d\u00f3 seal a chaitheamh ar an eala\u00edn sin, ba ghearr gur cuireadh ar a sh\u00faile d\u00f3 \u00e9, n\u00e1rbh aon rib\u00edn r\u00e9idh \u00e9 an Tiogar agus a chomhghuallaithe, agus bh\u00ed rud eile i gceist freisin, agus b\u2019in go raibh s\u00e9 thar a bheith deacair, do-dh\u00e9anta, d\u2019fh\u00e9adf\u00e1 a r\u00e1, a chairde a aithint thar a naimhde.<\/p><p style=\"text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;padding-top:0;margin-bottom:0pt;padding-bottom:0;line-height:2.4;font-size:14pt\"><strong><span style=\"font-size:18pt\">Gread leat abhaile, Alex<\/span><\/strong><\/p><p style=\"text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;padding-top:0;margin-bottom:0pt;padding-bottom:0;line-height:2.4;font-size:14pt\">Ag an bpointe sin, bh\u00ed cogadh cathartha ag bagairt ar an Nig\u00e9ir, agus d\u2019\u00e9irigh leis an Ambasad\u00f3ir Meirice\u00e1nach Alex a sheoladh abhaile, ar mhaithe leis fh\u00e9in, d\u00e1r nd\u00f3igh! Ach m\u00e1 dhein fh\u00e9in, n\u00ed raibh s\u00e9 cr\u00edochnaithe leis an T\u00edogar f\u00f3s, n\u00f3 ba ghearr sa bhaile \u00e9, nuair a tugadh le fios d\u00f3, go raibh a chlann gafa ag an T\u00edogar c\u00e9anna, agus chuile chos\u00falacht ar an sc\u00e9al nach dtiocfadh duine ar bith acu sl\u00e1n \u00f3 chr\u00faba an mhurdar\u00f3ra mh\u00edthr\u00f3cairigh ch\u00e9anna sin. Gabhadh an Lorgaire c\u00e1ili\u00fail fh\u00e9in fhreisin, agus c\u00e9 ghabh \u00e9? agus c\u00e9 a bh\u00ed taobh thiar den ghabh\u00e1il sin? agus c\u00e9\u2019n toradh a bheadh ar an ngn\u00f3 sin go l\u00e9ir? An mar\u00f3fa\u00ed Alex agus a ch\u00faram ar fad? n\u00f3 an \u00e9ireodh leo teacht saor \u00f3 chr\u00faba an T\u00edogair? <\/p><p style=\"text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;padding-top:0;margin-bottom:0pt;padding-bottom:0;line-height:2.4;font-size:14pt\">M\u00e1\u2019s uait freagra na gceisteanna sin a fh\u00e1il, t\u00e1 fait\u00edos orm go gcaithfidh t\u00fa an leabhar a l\u00e9amh duit fh\u00e9in, n\u00f3 t\u00e1 mo sh\u00e1ith r\u00e1ite agamsa faoin sc\u00e9al, agus d\u00e1r nd\u00f3igh, n\u00ed theasta\u00edonn uaimse an sc\u00e9al a mhilleadh oraibhse. <\/p><p style=\"text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;padding-top:0;margin-bottom:0pt;padding-bottom:0;line-height:2.4;font-size:14pt\">Is deacair an leabhar seo a chur uait go dt\u00ed go mbeidh an deoir deiridh di\u00fagtha agat as.  <\/p><p style=\"margin-top:0pt;padding-top:0;margin-bottom:0pt;padding-bottom:0;line-height:2.4\"><span style=\"height:1em\"><span>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I mB\u00e9al an Phobail Cross Country&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..c\u00e9adchl\u00f3&#8230;&#8230;.2008 by James Patterson&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.\u00a318.99 *************************** . Patterson chugainn ar\u00eds Sa leabhar seo \u00f3 pheann an scr\u00edbhneora ch\u00e1ili\u00fail, Mheirice\u00e1naigh, scaoileann an t-\u00fadar a sh\u00e1r-lorgaire, Alex Cross, ar th\u00f3ir an choirpigh mh\u00edthr\u00f3cairigh, chru\u00e1laigh, mhail\u00edsigh, Abidemi Sowande, a dtugta\u00ed \u201cAn T\u00edogair\u201d mar leasainm air, leasainm a bh\u00ed tuillte, agus tuillte go d\u00f3ighi\u00fail aige! 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