Summary

Chapter 8 takes place in Cork, Ireland, in the month of January, in the year 2000. Maurice and Charlie were in an all-night bar in Cork at about 4 a.m. The bar was called the Judas Iscariot. A large portion of the bar’s clientele was comprised of criminals. The bartender was named Nelson Lavin. Other patrons of the bar that night were a burglar named Vincent Keogh, a cocaine dealer named Steve Bromell, and a brothel-owner named Jimmy Earls. Maurice and Charlie sat at a table, talking animatedly but quietly to each other. Nelson conversed with some of the patrons, and they wondered about the content of Maurice and Charlie’s conversation. It was known among the criminals that Maurice and Charlie had lost a shipment of drugs recently when a ship sank. Nelson eavesdropped on parts of the conversation. It becomes evident to the...