Collusion

De: Stuart Neville

Narrado por: Gerard Doyle

From the LA Times Book Award-winning author of The Ghosts of Belfast, Stuart Neville, comes the exciting sequel: Collusion

Collusion returns listeners to Belfast, where a new mystery haunts its underbelly. Jack Lennon is a Detective Inspector trying to track down his former lover, Marie McKenna, and their daughter, but his superiors tell him to back off. Bull O'Kane is a bitter old man who will stop at nothing for vengeance. The Traveller is an assassin without pity or remorse, who stalks Belfast, tying up loose ends. Forced into the center of it all is former IRA paramilitary Gerry Fegan, who must confront his past - and The Traveller - for the fight of his life.

The early reviews for Collusion are just as strong as those for The Ghosts of Belfast. And Gerard Doyle's narration complements Neville's taut, sinister, smart, and suspenseful story perfectly. Collusion is a feast for thriller fans.

©2010 Stuart Neville (P)2010 Audible, Inc.

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"Irish author Neville follows his stunning debut with an even more powerful tale of revenge, violence, and redemption. Neville rides the perfect Celtic storm in an action-packed, cerebral thriller." ( Publishers Weekly)
"James Ellroy and Val McDermid were among admirers of Stuart Neville's corpse-filled debut [ The Ghosts of Belfast], and his follow-up Collusion is another mesmerising Belfast blood bath. The Traveller and O'Kane are memorably grotesque creations, and Neville's violent showdowns rival those in Jacobean revenge plays." ( Sunday Times)
" Collusion is a gripping thriller that transcends its genre through an unflinching examination of how 40 years of internecine strife has left unhealed scars that resonate in all levels of life in the North today." ( Irish Independent)

"As it lurches toward its bloody conclusion, the chapters of Collusion shrink, the world contracts, and, ultimately, all that remains is survival. The question Mr. Neville raises with singularly artful drama is whether survival is enough to keep one going." ( Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)

"Doyle’s performance of Lennon’s grit and vulnerabilities gives credibility to both, and his portrayals of the brutal villains are downright terrifying." ( AudioFile)

BOOK 2 IN THE SERIES DO READ 1 FIRST- JUST SUPERB

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Collusion starts where his first novel, the Ghosts of Belfast, leaves off, & book one is just incredible. The series is based in Ireland directly after the ongoing troubles with the IRA & the Loyalists.

A modern noir writer with an outlook as bleak as it gets. Every task, even when successful, is thankless. In this story, an Irish cop has to save his daughter from an amoral murderer who is stalking the girl and her mother. Not only is the cop up against a wily and savage killer, he is thwarted at every turn by the corruption of an Irish police bureaucracy that doesn't want him to upset any apple carts. This is terrific writing from a singular voice is very highly recommended.

Has the same wonderful and colorful characters that you grew to love and hate. Don't read this series out of order, big mistake. Neville is the kind of writer who starts out rather slowly, and you're reading along and all of a sudden, Wham! And you say to yourself, "Did I just read what I thought I read?" Lots of action and suspense. You'll love this series.

But do start with Book One.

Good Book

A good book that is well narrated. I would recommend this to my friends and family. Thanks to Audible for having this in store.

Great book

Great series all 4 books in this series is well worth the money and time hard to put down

What a ripsnorter! And the narration of the great Gerard Doyle.

This is a compelling, gritty story, the second in a series about DI Jack Lennon. You won’t be disappointed if you enjoy noir. A great listen.

Hard, violent, and Irish

This is the second book in Stuart Neville's Belfast Noir Jack Lennon series. The first book, The Ghosts of Belfast, really only featured Detective Inspector Lennon as a minor character - the main character was the anti-hero Gerry Fagan, a former IRA killer who was now haunted by the ghosts of his victims. Fagan was so crazy he scared everyone, and when "everyone" decided they wanted him dead, a bloodbath ensued.

Now, Lennon has settled into his new role as an underpaid detective on the force. His family has disowned him for becoming a "peeler" (cop), and he has few friends. Then he finds out that the "special branch" of the police has been concealing things, like the whereabouts of his ex (a Catholic girl who also suffered unpersoning for having hooked up with a cop) and his young daughter. Lennon does not hesitate to turn over rocks and derail his own career to find them.

Meanwhile, Gerry Fagan had escaped to New York where he wanted to just fade into the shadows, working as an undocumented laborer. Of course the boys back home aren't going to allow that. Bull O'Kane, his old nemesis, has put out a hit on him, and the hitman is a dangerous, almost unworldly assassin known only as the Traveller.

The Traveller stalks through this book like Anton Chighur, intrigued by Gerry Fagan, who seems like a man just as dangerous and fearsome as himself. The difference being that the Traveller is remorseless and conscienceless, while Fagan is trying to atone for his past sins.

Lennon's ex is caught up in all this - she was part of the feud that ignited the original bloodbath back in Belfast, so she's a loose end to be tied up.

Obviously, there is going to be a climactic showdown between Gerry Fagan and the Traveller. Jack Lennon is almost a secondary character in his own series.

The "Collusion" of the title is between all the parties in the still-violent and roiling world of modern Ireland, post-Troubles. Cops, criminals, unionists, IRA, everyone is now passing names and money to each other, selling each other out, all just trying to stay aboard the money train, while the few people who actually have principles - whether legal, like Detective Lennon, or amoral, like Gerry Fagan - are just more people in the way, putting their own loved ones in danger when they won't let the bodies lie. Neville's series is gritty and hardboiled, sour like whiskey, violent like Belfast, tough like the Irish.