Falling Glass

by Adrian McKinty Narrated by Gerard Doyle

Overview

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 thirty-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.

Editorial Reviews

Library Journal

In McKinty's (The Dead Yard) tenth book, Killian, an ex-enforcer for the IRA, returns during this global recession to his lucrative criminal specialty as a hedge against his real estate investments. He is hired by a billionaire airline and casino magnate to find the man's ex-wife, who has disappeared with their two daughters. This fast-paced thriller also looks at discrimination in Northern Ireland (Killian's heritage is of the widely despised Pavee or Tinker community). Irish actor/narrator Gerard Doyle's great reading of McKinty's dialog enhances the experience. That said, listeners will be well advised to know in advance that "peelers" are police, "caravans," trailers, and "weens" (wee'uns), youngsters. Highly recommended for adult crime/mystery collections. To McKinty fans who have not seen his blog (adrianmckinty.blogspot.com): go there!—Cliff Glaviano, formerly with Bowling Green State Univ. Libs., OH

JULY 2011 - AudioFile

A hired gun who is willing to fall back on violence when diplomacy doesn’t succeed, Killian reluctantly comes out of retirement to take the most lucrative job of his career. But he eventually discovers the ugly reason a high-profile Irish business tycoon is willing to pay him top dollar to find his runaway ex-wife and children. Gerard Doyle’s rich voice provides authenticity for the Irish tough guys, especially former IRA thug Killian, and vulnerability for the drug-dazed ex-wife. Sometimes Doyle falls short in distinguishing between characters, making the dialogue a bit difficult to follow. Overall, he narrates the fast-paced action scenes with clarity and paints the powerful entrepreneur with chilling intensity. N.M.C. © AudioFile 2011, Portland, Maine

Product Details

BN ID:	2940169805369
Publisher:	Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Publication date:	03/01/2011
Edition description:	Unabridged

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