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Falling Glass

By: Adrian McKinty
Narrated by: Gerard Doyle
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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.

©2011 Adrian McKinty (P)2011 Blackstone Audio, Inc. Mystery Suspense Thriller & Suspense Marriage Fiction Exciting
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Another great story from Mckinty..
I enjoyed the characters and loved the end.
Can't wait for his new novel 'The Chain' already pre-ordered.

Superb !!

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Love love loved this book the narrator is brilliant. I’m in a Adrian McKinty worm hole and plan to stay here as long as his books are available.

Had me hooked in the first paragraph

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I really enjoyed this book - storyline and narration just fabulous and a very clever ending

Brilliant

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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.

Loved the latter part of this about the travelling life.

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Surprised myself by listening to this as had previously dismissed the author & narrator; and, what an enjoyable surprise it was too as the story kept my attention & Gerald Doyle's lilting narration captivated me.
A stand alone book by Adrian McKinty, has a minor character from his unheard Michael Forsythe series take the floor. Killian's an Irish tinker, traveler, a Parvee by birth, an ex IRA enforcer, renowned for his non-violent persuasive skills, that silver tongue of his, is now retired, forty being old in his world.
Strapped for cash he takes up what seems a straight forward job, find the ex-wife & two daughters of an extremely wealthy, powerful & politically well-connected Irish businessman, the pay off, a suspiciously high half million pounds. It quickly transcends that there's more at stake than the runaways, as another player appears, a young skilled hitman tasked with killing the women, retrieving a laptop containing incriminating evidence.
Falling Glass is fast-paced and very engaging. Outside the action, of which there's lots, the landscape of Ireland is beautifully evoked making me want to visit; and Killian's heritage, his adherence to the Parvee Code of Conduit, is an insightful, sympathetic peak into the nomadic life, myths & traditions of Irish travelers.

A silver tongued Parvee to the very end!

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