Falling Glass

By: Adrian McKinty

Narrated by: Gerard Doyle

Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins

Publisher's summary

In this noir thriller by a New York Times best-selling and Edgar award-winning author, a retired IRA fixer takes a lucrative last job finding the ex-wife and daughters of a wealthy airline owner.

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 30-year-old secret is going to put all of them in terrible danger.

McKinty is at his continent-hopping, well-paced, evocative best in this thriller, moving between his native Ireland and distant cities within a skin-of-his-teeth timeframe.

©2011 Adrian McKinty (P)2011 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Wonderful!

A truly excellent story beautifully narrated by Gerard Doyle. I loved it and have no hesitation in recommending it very highly.

Cool but strange ending

I'd read another book of his but this one won't be one I'll go back to a 2nd time. the characters are great but I'm not sure I like the ending. it was just sort over boring. I love the history of the Pavie people.

Another great book from Adrian McKinty

Didn’t want this book to end. The storyline was great - Classic McKinty & of course with Gerard Doyle narrating, it was all the better to listen to.

Another great Adrian McKinty story

Thoroughly enjoyed this book (especially good ending!) and Gerard Doyle was a fantastic narrator (he finally got the hang of American accents!)

Wonderful narration

As always his books leave you wanting more. The narration is amazing. Well worth the credit.

Another great McKinty book!

What about Gerard Doyle’s performance did you like?

Doyle is a great companion to Mckinty's storytelling, together they make a terrific team. They have taken audio books to a new venue of entertainment.

Any additional comments?

This is another page turner, where you just can't stop listening. I really enjoyed following Killian on his quest. Great job, again. Get it.

Another good one.

I found this author with the first of the Sean Duffy trilogy. I bought this one on sale. This character, Killian was just as good. I like how McKinty tis in the Irish lore. This book is a stand alone. Worth the read.

Okay and fills a long day driving

First I did not like the narrator and the Irish accent he used. It was hard to understand him in some parts of the book. It took a while to get into the book. I almost quit listening after the first 30 minutes because it was not going anywhere but stuck it out. Turned out to be a fairly good story. It is not an award winning book but okay to fill the time.

Read everything this guy writes.

Adrian McKinty is the best writer of novels that I have come across in my 66 years. He is better at describing the plight of victims than Dickens; better at dialogue than Robert Parker; as funny as David Rosenfeldt; as good at plotting as Nelson DeMille. Maybe he doesn't have the oddball characters of Carl Hiassen, but who does? And Hiassen is like a rich dessert. McKinty will make you work for some of it. His allusions range from classic literature and mythology to hum drum television. I think this is as good as it gets.

An Audible Best Thriller of 2011

STORY - Falling Glass is definitely a fast-paced thriller. Killian, the main character, is an ex-IRA enforcer who is hired to find the ex-wife of a very rich man. She uses drugs and has run away with their children. There is also a Russian hired to kill the same woman. There are lies and secrets which make the story interesting as well as plenty of action and violence. The ending is.....not typical.

The main characters are what I would call "gray" characters -- neither perfect white nor villanous black, which makes each of them unique and very real. The story is set in Ireland, read by an Irishman and written in what seems to be native Irish lingo and slang. (I had to Google several terms). Descriptions of the Irish countryside and a background of its politics enhanced the whole experience.

PERFORMANCE - It took me a while to get used to the narrator's accent, especially when he uses unfamiliar wording. He ends each sentence in an upswing as if he's asking a question, which took some getting used to as well.

OVERALL - This wouldn't have been my choice for Best Thriller 2011, but it's a very good book. There's sex, violence (including a little dismemberment) and the F-word flows freely, so it might not be for everyone.