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.

Oh man!!

I hope there's a sequel to this! I listened to all three of the Michael Forsithe books ( probably botched that last name) anyway he is an all around good guy, and so is Killian! I really hope killian was able to talk his way out of Michael killing him! it makes no sense why Michael would kill him after he found out what went on, the whole story. I like both characters they should be on the same side. period.

good story!

did struggle with narrators accent so almost gave up after the first 10 minutes... really glad I didn't was well worth a listen

Irish Cool

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

Definitely. This is a really fun book with great pace and lots of action and adventure. There is a wonderful contrast between the desperation of various scenes versus the cool and aplomb of the main characters. There is lots of urban cynicism interspersed with genuine enthusiasm and optimism. Makes for a great read with lots of funny little moments.

What about Gerard Doyle’s performance did you like?

Terrific. Great job of portraying the various characters.

McKinty and Doyle are an amazing pair

It must say something about an author when you start to see the bad guys as heros. To be able to place you on the other side of the fence and see the world through the eyes of very bad people is quite an experience. There is some very graphic violence in this novel and I must admit that I had to fast forward so I did not hear it - the bits i heard were very graphic although correctly in context - there is enough violence of a tolerable level for me to get the idea. I loved the detail Adrian went into describing the 'tinkers' and their beliefs and history - made me do a bit of research on the side to see if Adrian was accurate - he was! Gerard Doyle is amazing, changing his voice and accents for so many people. Some books should never change their narrator and thank goodness Gerard appears to narrate all of Adrian's books.

Real good

Let's book it's very entertaining . The characters are very well developed the story takes you off in different directions and gives you lots of twists and turns I enjoyed it immensely

McKinty at his Best

I had gone through all of Duffy and all of Forsythe before coming across this one-off. To my surprise, it’s my favorite (and with my favorite narrator). Guess I’m left waiting for another in the Duffy series (hopefully!)..

The narration is what makes this book excellent

It's an engaging story. The characters all feel real. We become attached to them. Even the bad 'bad guy' hitman has a redeeming feature. (Does it make us like him, no, but anyway, he's not totally evil)
Do I know anything about Ireland, and the IRA and the political sitch there, then? Or now? Nope, not a clue. And that had no effect on my enjoyment of this story.
It's a good story. The pacing is decent, there is a bit of suspense and, while there isn't really a whodunit question present, you will still want to see how it all turns out.
The narration is superb. Absolutely superb.

The ending is really, really good.

This is the first McKinty that I've read or listened to. Killian, the protagonist is sympathetic, well developed, complex. The atmosphere is romantic, realistic, and brutal, an interesting mix of normalcy and the underworld.

Other reviews reveal the plot. I'll just comment that though well done, the sequences of betrayal, murder and mayhem have been written elsewhere and equally as well. In other words, no surprises. EXCEPT, the ending. It's a great save in an otherwise good (not great) storyline.

By the way, it took half the book to become accustomed to the reader's rhythm, but then my family's from the south.

So charming protagonist, great atmosphere, average plot, imaginative ending make Falling Glass a good read for all who enjoy crime fiction.

Fantastic yarn

I've listened to all McKinty's stuff. It just keeps getting better. Gerard Doyle is in the top three best readers.
It's prose meets the murder mystery. Too good!

It's difficult to know where to begin

Adrian McKinty is so addictive there is a tendency to count the books I haven't yet read and worry about what I will do when I finish all of them. It isn't too much to say that McKinty is a master of mystery, and Falling Glass is a perfect showcase of his talent. The man has built mystery upon mystery to the last word of the last chapter. Gerard Doyle is once again the perfect voice for McKinty's work. Don't miss this book!