McGarry Stateside Books in Order

The McGarry Stateside books pick up Bunny McGarry's story after the events of the early Dublin novels and fling him across the Atlantic. Officially dead and very much not retired, he heads to America to look for Simone, the woman he loves, and for the Sisters of the Saint, a rogue order of nuns who are experts at not being found.

In Disaster Inc he arrives in New York with little more than a bad hangover and a vague lead. A simple breakfast in a diner ends with a botched robbery and a terrified woman, Amy Daniels, marked for death. Bunny's attempt to help her drags him into a murky scheme where former government operatives, weaponised pensions and private security cowboys happily treat people as disposable assets.

I Have Sinned finds him still trawling the city for clues, this time through a priest who runs a boxing gym for at risk kids in the Bronx. Father Gabriel de Marcos clearly knows more than he is willing to say, and someone is prepared to send killers after him. Bunny has to keep the padre alive, dig into his past and work under strict rules imposed by the Sisters: no drinking, no swearing, no violence, which for him is almost a personality transplant.

In The Quiet Man, Bunny signs up for his most reckless scheme yet, going undercover inside a Nevada prison under an assumed identity. His job is to break a mysterious inmate out before various factions can get to the man first. Locked away from allies, dealing with corrupt officials and a very dubious religious cult, he has to rely on his instincts and the occasional intervention from the Sisters of the Saint.

Other Plans pushes the road trip aspect further. Bunny and his small found family try to lie low while travelling across the United States, only to wander into the wrong bar at the wrong moment. Suddenly they are mistaken for dangerous enemies by a heavily armed militia, while a furious cartel targets the Sisters elsewhere. What was meant to be a quiet stop becomes a siege.

Across the Stateside books you get the same mix of sharp dialogue, bruising action and unexpectedly tender moments that runs through the Dublin stories, but filtered through an outsider's view of America. Bunny remains the constant: a stubborn, foulmouthed man who cannot walk away when someone vulnerable needs help, no matter how far from home he finds himself.