I Hear the Sirens in the Street: A Detective Sean Duffy Novel (The Troubles Trilogy) Paperback Author: Adrian Mckinty | Language: English | ISBN:
1616147873 | Format: PDF, EPUB
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*Starred Review* A headless torso found in a suitcase presents just the kind of case Detective Inspector Sean Duffy of the Royal Ulster Constabulary wants to pursue, even after he’s ordered to let it go. When the victim is identified as an American poisoned with a rare plant, and the suitcase is found to have belonged to Martin McAlpine—an army reservist and brother of a baronet killed months earlier, presumably by the IRA—the case becomes even more interesting, especially after the detective who did a perfunctory investigation of McAlpine’s murder reopens that case and is himself murdered. It’s 1982, when violence in Northern Ireland threatens to escalate after Britain’s invasion of the Falkland Islands pulls away troops that support the RUC. In this pitch-perfect sequel to The Cold Cold Ground (2012), the second in the author’s Troubles Trilogy, 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. --Michele Leber
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“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
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- Series: The Troubles Trilogy
- Paperback: 320 pages
- Publisher: Seventh Street Books (May 14, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1616147873
- ISBN-13: 978-1616147877
- Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.5 x 0.8 inches
- Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Adrian McKinty nails it again in "I Hear Sirens in the Street," the second in the "Troubles" trilogy set in civil war-ravaged Northern Ireland in the early 1980s. Sean Duffy, a detective inspector in Belfast suburb Carrickfergus, makes the grisly discovery of a man's torso squeezed into a suitcase. With only a partial tattoo as forensic evidence, Duffy and his detective squad spin some old-fashioned gumshoe police work and secure an identity of the corpse. But from this fast initial progress, the case slows, overshadowed by the continuing "troubles" that are tearing the struggling country at the seams. But the investigation is also thwarted by the faintest hints of conspiracy suggesting that this murder may be just a cog in a much more sinister machine.
McKinty has risen from near obscurity to one of the top crime writers today on the rare combination of gripping plots mashed with the uncommon prose one might expect from a writer packing the author's thick portfolio of Oxford-led academic creds. "Sirens" is a clever juxtaposition of a slick mystery and police procedural on top of a neat historical 1982 time capsule: the Falkland's War, the raging terrorism of the IRA, Blade Runner, "Iron Lady" Margaret Thatcher's Conservative administration, and even John DeLorean (who remembered that his ill-fated roadster was manufactured in Northern Ireland, and was briefly a flickering light in an otherwise dismal Northern Irish economy?) McKinty's Northern Ireland is a God-forsaken place: "...bad weather, bad people, bad food and sky-high unemployment." Consistent with its predecessor (Cold, Cold Ground"), McKinty's lofty prose is adrenaline-fueled, violent, and impossible to resist: strong characters, smart dialog, and authoritative local background supporting the tangled plot.
Detective Sergeant Sean Duffy's next case begins with a case - specifically an old suitcase containing the torso of an unknown victim. The setting is Northern Ireland in 1982. "The Troubles" are at their height, the British army are heading to the Falklands and the John DeLorean is producing "Back to the Future" sports cars. Duffy is something of an anomaly - a Catholic officer in the predominantly Protestant RUC - which places him in a precarious position.
Adrian McKinty's "I Hear the Sirens in the Street" is his second Duffy novel and it sees him right back to his very best form. It's full of pathos and has an intricate plot line that keeps Duffy, and the reader, guessing throughout. There's dark humour and violence and he evokes the time and place of the novel with unerring accuracy. It's full of musical, political and cultural references that, if you are old enough to remember the period, takes you right back. Plastic Bertrand is on the record player and cigarettes are ?2 a pack.
Duffy's first outing was in "The Cold Cold Ground". It's certainly not necessary to have read this book, although if you plan on reading them out of order, be aware that there are some plot spoilers about the first book in "I Hear the Sirens in the Street". It's something of a double edged sword - there is nothing more annoying that reading about a character who has undergone some fairly traumatic events in a previous adventure with apparently less impact on his character than if he'd popped down the shops, so it's good that his previous exploits are recognized. Also "The Cold Cold Ground" made much more of Duffy's Catholicism in a Protestant police force which explains a lot of his situation.
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