I Hear the Sirens in the Street (Sean Duffy Series #2)

by Adrian McKinty

Overview

A Barry Award winner and shortlisted for the Ned Kelly Award! A torso in a suitcase looks like an impossible case. But Sean Duffy isn't easily deterred, especially when his floundering love life leaves him in need of distraction. So, with Detective Constables McCrabban and McBride, he goes to work identifying the victim. The torso turns out to be all that's left of an American tourist who once served in the US military. What was he doing in Northern Ireland in the midst of the 1982 Troubles? The trail leads to the doorstep of a beautiful, flame-haired, twenty-something widow, whose husband died at the hands of an IRA assassination team just a few months before. Suddenly, Duffy is caught between his romantic instincts, gross professional misconduct, and powerful men he should know better than to mess with. These include British intelligence, the FBI, and local paramilitary death squads, enough to keep even the savviest detective busy. Duffy's growing sense of self-doubt isn't helping. But, being a legendarily stubborn man, he doesn't let that stop him pursuing the case to its explosive conclusion.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781094080994
Publisher:	Blackstone Publishing
Publication date:	07/09/2019
Series:	Sean Duffy Series , #2
Edition description:	Unabridged
Sales rank:	94,640
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.20(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Adrian McKinty is the author of eighteen novels, including the acclaimed Detective Sean Duffy novels. Rain Dogs won the 2017 Edgar® Award for Best Paperback Original. Gun Street Girl was shortlisted for the Anthony, Ned Kelly, and Edgar® Awards. The Cold Cold Ground won the Spinetingler Award. I Hear the Sirens in the Street won the Barry Award and was shortlisted for the Ned Kelly Award. In the Morning I'll Be Gone won the Ned Kelly Award and was selected by the American Library Association as one of the top-10 crime fiction novels of 2014. McKinty is also the author of the standalone historical The Sun Is God. Born and raised in Carrickfergus, Northern Ireland, McKinty was called "the best of the new generation of Irish crime novelists" in the Glasgow Herald.

Table of Contents

Contents

1: a town called malice....................     7     

2: the dying earth....................     19     

3: the big red one....................     29     

4: machine gun silhouette....................     41     

5: the widow mcalpine....................     49     

6: someone else's problem....................     63     

7: she's got a ticket to ride (and she don't care)....................     75     

8: veterans of foreign wars....................     81     

9: blood on the tracks....................     89     

10: good progress....................     98     

11: no progress....................     105     

12: a message....................     116     

13: the girl on the bike....................     129     

14: a very ordinary assassination....................     133     

15: sir harry....................     148     

16: salt....................     156     

17: the treasury man....................     173     

18: not exactly scout finch....................     182     

19: the chief constable....................     190     

20: the udr base....................     198     

21: fifteens....................     210     

22: i've seen things you people wouldn't believe....................     218     

23: delorean....................     222     

24: people in glass houses....................     235     

25: into the woods....................     241     

26: through a glass darkly....................     252     

27: high mass....................     257     

28: america....................     262     

29: driving under the influence....................     271     

30: back to belfast....................     278     

31: in extremis....................     292     

32: in the world of light....................     306     

33: cashiered....................     308     

epilogue: a foot patrol through the abyss....................     315     

About ... Adrian McKinty....................     319     

Editorial Reviews

• Winner! Barry Award for Best Paperback Original, 2014
• #3 on Booklist’s The Year’s Best Crime Novels /Top Ten Crime Fiction 
• Shortlisted for 2013 Ned Kelly Awards, Best Crime Novel 
• Longlisted for the Theakston Best British Crime Novel Award

“In this pitch-perfect sequel to The Cold Cold Ground...Duffy is nearly overwhelmed by politics. This is crime fiction at its best: a police procedural with dialogue that’s crisp and occasionally lighthearted; blistering action that’s often lethal; McKinty’s mordant Belfastian wit; and a protagonist readers won’t want to leave behind when the trilogy ends.”
—BOOKLIST, STARRED REVIEW

“I Hear the Sirens in the Street blew my bloody doors off!”
—IAN RANKIN, author of the Inspector Rebus novels
 
“Adrian McKinty has the chops to do all manner of things with words, and in I Hear the Sirens in the Street he unleashes a strain of rough and visual, sly and lyric narrative prose in service of one hell of a story. Sean Duffy is a great creation, a figure of many parts, and the place comes alive.”
—DANIEL WOODRELL, author of The Outlaw Album: Stories

From the Publisher

This classic police procedural is set in 1982, the fourteenth year of “the Troubles” in Northern Ireland. John DeLorean is building cars in Belfast, the Argentine junta has occupied the Falkland Islands, and Detective Inspector Sean Duffy finds a dismembered body in a suitcase. This is the second of McKinty's “Troubles trilogy”—in which he brings one of the most conflict-filled periods in recent history alive. Gerard Doyle does a wonderful job with the ineffable accents of Northern Ireland and the rhythm of its dialogue. Doyle’s narration is clear, well paced, and consistent. It perfectly matches the rising darkness that seems to surround Duffy as he searches for a killer. F.C. © AudioFile 2013, Portland, Maine

JULY 2013 - AudioFile