Hang on St. Christopher
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4.7 • 60 Ratings
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Publisher Description
New York Times bestselling author Adrian McKinty continues the Edgar Award–winning Sean Duffy series with Hang On St. Christopher.
Rain slicked streets, riots, murder, chaos. It’s July 1992 and the Troubles in Northern Ireland are still grinding on after twenty-five apocalyptic years. Detective Inspector Sean Duffy got his family safely over the water to Scotland, to “Shortbread Land.” Duffy’s a part-timer now, only returning to Belfast six days a month to get his pension. It’s an easy gig, if he can keep his head down.
But then a murder case falls into his lap while his protégé is on holiday in Spain. A carjacking gone wrong and the death of a solitary, middle-aged painter. But something’s not right, and as Duffy probes he discovers the painter was an IRA assassin. So, the question becomes: Who hit the hit man and why?
This is Duffy’s most violent and dangerous case yet and the whole future of the burgeoning “peace process” may depend upon it. Based on true events, Duffy must unentangle parallel operations by the CIA, MI5, and Special Branch. Duffy attempts to bring a killer to justice while trying to keep himself and his team alive as everything unravels around them. They might not all make it out of this one.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
McKinty impressively balances action and intimacy in his appealing eighth adventure for Northern Ireland's Det. Insp. Sean Duffy (after The Detective Up Late). It's July 1992, and Duffy is commuting from Scotland to Belfast six days per month, counting down the hours until he can retire from the Royal Ulster Constabulary. While Duffy's boss is holidaying in Spain, a murder is reported in Belfast: well-liked portrait painter Quentin Townes was killed in what Duffy's colleagues quickly label a violent carjacking. Duffy, on the other hand, has a hunch that the attack was targeted. Soon, he unearths a plot linking foreign forces to the IRA, a discovery that makes him a target for ruthless assassins and sends him to the U.S. to solve the puzzle. As always, Duffy is a sly, lovable narrator, peppering the narrative with witty asides and copious references to 1980s and '90s British pop culture. Enriched by McKinty's brisk plotting, illuminating glimpses at a difficult period of Irish history, and poignant reflections on aging, this is a cracking good time.
Customer Reviews
as good as ever
feels a bit shorter than the other books, but Sean is still going strong !