Echoland, Moore - C +

         This novel is set in Dublin in the summer of 1940.  Neutrality meant that the Irish were afraid of invasions by both the Germans and the British. The focus is on two young army intelligence officers surveilling a German couple likely engaged in espionage.  They stumble upon a plot involving a minister of the government negotiating with the Germans to purchase rifles that the British army left at Dunkirk. Ireland's tortured history with the English, and their own fractious divisions swirl around the lieutenants, Duggan and Gifford, like the mists that frequently shroud the city. It's pretty thin gruel. The only interesting takeaway is that the UK was so anxious that summer that they tried to tease the republic away from neutrality with a rather non-specific offer to reunite the six counties in the north.