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S'està carregant… Falling Glass (2011)de Adrian McKinty
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Apunta't a LibraryThing per saber si aquest llibre et pot agradar. No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. It's an engaging story. The characters all feel real. We become attached to them. Even the bad 'bad guy' hitman has a redeeming feature. (Does it make us like him, no, but anyway, he's not totally evil) Do I know anything about Ireland, and the IRA and the political sitch there, then? Or now? Nope, not a clue. And that had no effect on my enjoyment of this story. It's a good story. The pacing is decent, there is a bit of suspense and, while there isn't really a whodunit question present, you will still want to see how it all turns out.
Falling Glass, the new novel by Detectives Beyond Borders friend Adrian McKinty, is: * A meditation on aging * A dream of escape from urban life * A mini-course on Ireland's Pavees, or travelers, or tinkers * An expression of love for Ulster * An expression of disdain for professional `Oirishness' Premis
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. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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Killian plays cat and mouse with young Russian killer, who appears to have been sent by the businessman's people too, and who has more lethal instructions.
The book moves along great- I read it on an airplane, and it was perfect for that purpose. We learn a bit about Northern Ireland, and about the "tinkers" or Pavee people, a gypsy-like people distinct from other Irish. The spycraft if pretty good too. This is my first McGinty book, so I don't know how of if this fits in with others he's written. Looking forward to finding out. ( )