Gun Street Girl (Detective Sean Duffy) - Softcover

McKinty, Adrian

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1846689813 ISBN 13: 9781846689819

Verlag: Serpent's Tail, 2015

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Fluent and fast-paced (Sunday Times)

A superb satire of its time and place. (Irish Times)

Adrian McKinty is back with the same perceptive commentary on social conditions and an acute awareness of political realities in the Belfast of the eighties ... Lucky for us there must be plenty of unresolved crimes, even in a backwater like Carrickfergus, for Inspector Duffy to tackle and for McKinty to turn into further gripping episodes. (Irish Independent)

Gun Street Girl's roots in historical fact render it a superb satire of its time and place. (Declan Burke Irish Times 2015-01-17)

McKinty, with his machine-gun prose and cold hard characters, drops us slam-bang into the racing heart of the fourth Sean Duffy thriller. Strap yourself in. (RTE Guide 2015-01-17)

This is a first-rate crime-thriller that commands attention from the opening pages (Sydney Morning Herald 2015-02-13)

Duffy always reminds me of one of Iain Banks's jaded-but-idealistic narrator-heroes, and not just because of the protagonist's taste for pharmaceutical-grade cocaine. Anyone missing their Banks fix should give McKinty a go. (John O'Connell Guardian 2015-02-28)

Gun Street Girl revels in the farce that was the past to deliver a stellar crime novel for the present. Simply outstanding. (Sydney Morning Herald 2015-03-14)

McKinty's Troubles-set tales of sarky Belfast cop Sean Duffy are becoming one of the great crime series ... Brilliant (The Sun 2015-04-17)

Books of the Year: McKinty is belatedly beginning to enjoy the recognition he deserves (Chris Mullin Observer 2015-11-29)

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SHORTLISTED FOR BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL AT THE EDGAR AWARD 2016

Book 4 in the Detective Sean Duffy series

Belfast, 1985. Gunrunners on the borders, riots in the cities, The Power of Love on the radio. And somehow, hanging on, is Detective Inspector Sean Duffy, a Catholic policeman in the Royal Ulster Constabulary.

The usual rounds of riot duty and sectarian murders are interrupted when a wealthy couple are shot dead while watching TV. Their son jumps to his death, leaving a note claiming responsibility. But something doesn't add up, and people keep dying.

Soon Sean Duffy, Belfast's most roguish detective, is on the trail of a mystery that will pit him against shadowy US national security forces, and take him into the white-hot heart of the biggest political scandal of the decade.

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• Verlag: Serpent's Tail
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1846689813
• ISBN 13: 9781846689819
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 336