Ronan Boyle and the Bridge of Riddles (Ronan Boyle #1)
RONAN BRIDGE AMULET BOOKS NEW YORK
BOYLE AND THE OF RIDDLES THOMAS LANNON ILLUSTRATED BY JOHN HENDRIX
Office Of finbar DOwD Deputy Commissioner Special Unit of Tir Na Nog Collins House Killarney Kerry Ireland 23 June To Trainees of the Special Unit From Office of the Deputy Commissioner POLITE WARNING A box containing this diary was mailed to the Galway office of the garda by Lieutenant Ronan Boyle The package was 18 kilograms 40 pounds in weight and poorly taped together Boyle’s files span several years and conclude with his disappearance seven Wednesdays ago This document is available via Ireland’s 1997 Freedom of Information Act The commissioner hopes that you might glean some experience experience from these pages and avoid Boyle’s fate which seems nasty If Boyle is not deceased he is at least very very missing missing Information leading to the safe return of Ronan Boyle to
the Special Unit headquarters in Killarney will be rewarded No questions asked An ever-so-polite reminder that reprinting this manuscript manuscript in whole or in part or even quoting it in an offhanded just me and my mates having a goof sort of way will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of human and faerie law Some of Boyle’s original notes appear to have been scribbled scribbled in the dark and are reprinted here as close as anyone could guess Evidence on the papers is confusing as the garda laboratory in Dublin has confirmed that the ink is both human blood some Boyle’s and some not Boyle’s as well as the blood of two different male leprechauns plus one kind of fudge In short The statements in the following text represent the views and opinions exclusively of Ronan Boyle post-humous post-humous Lieutenant Garda Special Unit of Tir Na Nog They do not reflect the views or opinions of the An Garda Síochána itself or the government of the Republic of Ireland With my best wishes and hoping not to prosecute you to the fullest extent of the law F.D D.C