I Hear the Sirens in the Street: A Detective Sean Duffy Novel

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This propulsive thriller is a "gruesomely accurate portrayal of '80s life in Ireland" (Kirkus Reviews) from the New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award-winning author Adrian McKinty.

"Adrian McKinty just leapt to the top of my list of must-read suspense novelists. He's the real deal." --Dennis Lehane

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 a 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, twentysomething 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 as a legendarily stubborn man, he doesn't let that stop him from pursuing the case to its explosive conclusion.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9798212018838

Media Type: Hardcover

Publisher: Blackstone Publishing

Publication Date: 05-09-2023

Pages: 0

Product Dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.20(d)

Series: Sean Duffy Series - #2

About the Author

Adrian McKinty was born and grew up in Belfast, Northern Ireland. He studied philosophy at Oxford University before moving to Australia and to New York. He is the author of more than a dozen crime novels, including the award-winning standalone thriller The Chain, which was a New York Times and #1 international bestseller. McKinty’s books have been translated into over forty languages, and he has won the Edgar Award, the International Thriller Writers Award, the Ned Kelly Award (three times), the Anthony Award, the Barry Award, the Macavity Award, and the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award. His novel The Island was an instant New York Times bestseller and made their “Best Thrillers of 2022” list.

Table of Contents

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

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