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Falling Glass
- Narrated by: Gerard Doyle
- Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
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By now, Adrian McKinty’s reputation for solidly crafted Irish crime novels is well-established. Equally familiar is the context into which this latest narrative is dropped. McKinty spent his childhood in Belfast at the height of paramilitary conflict there, and Falling Glass centers around a minor character from his Michael Forsythe trilogy that is steeped in precisely those historical influences. Killian, a legendary IRA heavy, emerges from retirement for what appears to be an easy money job of rescuing some rich businessman’s kids from their drug-addled mother. Naturally, complications abound and Killian soon finds himself in fierce competition with an apparently invincible Russian hit man on a case that evolves into something much uglier than a straightforward kidnapping scheme.
Throughout this debacle, Killian’s Pavee senses of humor and realism never abandon him. He has the dry wit and keen improvisational reflexes of a man raised among the Irish gypsies, which gets him into and out of trouble in equal measure. McKinty has a discerning ear for Killian’s banter, colorfully supported by Gerard Doyle’s authentic brogue. Doyle has won numerous audio awards, but perhaps more importantly, has also been with McKinty every step of the way. As narrator for the entire Michael Forsythe trilogy, Doyle is not only aware of this new novel’s background, but has also already established a clear sense of voice for many of this novel’s chief characters.
Although Forsythe takes a back seat in this story, fans of the previous trilogy will be gratified by the return of Doyle’s vision for the voice work, and find a credible set of new developments among beloved characters. But this novel is also quite capable of standing alone, and listeners who are coming fresh to Adrian McKinty’s work will not have any trouble picking up the story’s thread, thanks in part to Gerard Doyle’s confident hold on the reins of the narration. McKinty and Doyle obviously have a good chemistry going, and the conclusion of Falling Glass satisfyingly leaves plenty of room for the development of a Killian trilogy. Megan Volpert
Summary
In this noir thriller by a New York Times best-selling and Edgar award-winning author, a retired IRA fixer takes a lucrative last job finding the ex-wife and daughters of a wealthy airline owner.
Richard Coulter is a man who has everything. His beautiful new wife is pregnant, his upstart airline is undercutting the competition and moving from strength to strength, his diversification into the casino business in Macau has been successful, and his fabulous Art Deco house on an Irish cliff top has just been featured in Architectural Digest.
But then, for some reason, his ex-wife Rachel doesn’t keep her side of the custody agreement and vanishes off the face of the earth with Richard’s two daughters. Richard hires Killian, a formidable ex-enforcer for the IRA, to track her down before Rachel, a recovering drug addict, harms herself or the girls.
As Killian follows Rachel’s trail, he begins to see that there is a lot more to this case than first meets the eye and that a 30-year-old secret is going to put all of them in terrible danger.
McKinty is at his continent-hopping, well-paced, evocative best in this thriller, moving between his native Ireland and distant cities within a skin-of-his-teeth timeframe.
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- Sazza
- 31-03-23
Exciting, fast paced and excellently read
I loved every second of Adrian McKinty's novel from start to finish. In fact I didn't want it to end.
With Gerard Doyle's flawless narration, both the story, with all its twists and turns, the wonderful insights into the travelling communities and cultures, the price of greed and the good bad guy taking the moral high ground over and above the money, I just loved Killian. What a great character.
All the characters in this book were well rounded and balanced, the world in which it all took place both in Northern Ireland and across the pond, including known histories, were vivid and you were immediately there.
I could go on, it was that good... a truly riveting tale.
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- Sarah L.
- 03-05-23
Discovered by accident
this was a "because you listened to...." recommendation, and it was brilliant.
Funny as well as a thriller, bit difficult for me to get into to start with as not my normal kind of listen, but thoroughly enjoyed it
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- David Mulligan
- 05-04-23
Story telling at its Brilliant best
Loved it. Beautiful description beautifully described by described by the narrator. Sad when he tended
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- sheila ellerker
- 05-01-23
Excellent I loved it chained it in a day
This is the second book I have read by this author I be looking for more.
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- Amazon Customer
- 13-01-18
Brilliant
Great book,superb narration. Adrian Mc Kinty is an amazing author,poetic,funny and dark..genius!And the narration is superb.
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- Anonymous User
- 12-04-23
Brilliant
I really enjoyed this book - storyline and narration just fabulous and a very clever ending
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- Amazon Customer
- 27-03-23
Loved the latter part of this about the travelling life.
I wasn’t very engaged with the characters at first and thought it would just be another generic adventure/ crime, but then there were the lyrical passages and the protagonist became so much more. I wanted to carry on reading about him and felt like the book was written in two parts. I really enjoyed this more unique voice of the writer. Narration was soothing and lovely.
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- aBuyer
- 23-03-24
Slow burner
Took a while to get into it and almost gave up. I am glad I stuck with it. Good story and well narrated.
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- Alison K
- 24-06-22
Brilliant book
Just loved this story. Didn’t get into it straight away but once I did I couldn’t stop listening very exciting and gripped me right to the end. Excellent narration.
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- Katherine Farrell
- 01-01-23
Good plot
I loved the story and the Irish accent but found listening monotone as if it was being read from a book, there wasn’t much vocal emphasis at exciting parts of the plot and there was quiet a few. Overall a good audible.
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