I Hear the Sirens in the Street: A Detective Sean Duffy Novel (The Troubles Trilogy) [Kindle Edition] Author: Adrian Mckinty | Language: English | ISBN:
B00BH0VO16 | Format: PDF, EPUB
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Download books file now Download I Hear the Sirens in the Street: A Detective Sean Duffy Novel for everyone book with Mediafire Link Download Link 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. Download latest books on mediafire and other links compilation Download I Hear the Sirens in the Street: A Detective Sean Duffy Novel (The Troubles Trilogy) [Kindle Edition]
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- Publisher: Seventh Street Books (May 14, 2013)
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- Language: English
- ASIN: B00BH0VO16
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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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