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Cargando... Jag hör sirenerna på gatan (2013)por Adrian McKinty, Lars Sundh, Nils Larsson
Información de la obraOigo sirenas en la calle por Adrian McKinty (2013)
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McKinty varies radically from other Irish crime novelists in one significant stylistic department. The difference is mostly a matter of humour. McKinty’s central figure, Detective Inspector Sean Duffy, offers the quota of laughs we’ve been made accustomed to in Ireland’s crime literature, but unlike the rest of the country’s sleuths, there’s nothing mordant about the Duffy brand of funny stuff. The DI might even be described as optimistic. This is remarkable considering that events in the highly readable new book take place in 1982 when the Troubles meant that explosions, assassinations and spilled blood were daily routines. Duffy is from the north, a cop working out of a station in a town next door to Belfast. Since he’s also a Catholic, he gets it from all sides, under siege from both the IRA and the Ulster Defence Regiment. His sense of irony helps him through most crises. Cool and nervy, Duffy drinks his vodka gimlets, watches The Rockford Files on television, and goes about his investigating business with a style that’s mostly unflappable. Duffy’s latest case begins with the discovery of the dismembered body of an American tourist. The coppers, led by Duffy, chase the clues on a trail that leads our man into dangerous places in Ireland’s political and industrial worlds. If it begins to look as if the country’s unhinged violence is at last going to crush Duffy, we readers remain certain his valour and wit will guarantee survival in the end Pertenece a las seriesSean Duffy (2) Premios
Fiction.
Mystery.
Suspense.
Thriller.
HTML: A torso in a suitcase looks like an impossible case, but Sean Duffy isn't easily deterred, especially when his floundering love life leaves him in need of a distraction. So with Detective Constables McCrabban and McBride, he goes to work identifying the victim. The torso turns out to be all that's left of an American tourist who once served in the US military. What was he doing in Northern Ireland in the midst of the 1982 Troubles? The trail leads to the doorstep of a beautiful, flame-haired, twentysomething widow, whose husband died at the hands of an IRA assassination team just a few months before. Suddenly Duffy is caught between his romantic instincts, gross professional misconduct, and powerful men he should know better than to mess with. These include British intelligence, the FBI, and local paramilitary death squads—enough to keep even the savviest detective busy. Duffy's growing sense of self-doubt isn't helping. But as a legendarily stubborn man, he doesn't let that stop him from pursuing the case to its explosive conclusion. Longlisted for the 2014 Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award. Winner of the 2014 Barry Award for Best Paperback Original. .No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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La vÃctima murió envenenada, no es el método que emplean los paramilitares, ni del IRA ni los unionistas. El veneno es casero y procede de una planta tropical desconocida en Irlanda. Parece el crimen perfecto, pero Duffy sabe que eso nunca pasa. Todo va a cambiar cuando descubre unas señas en la maleta: las de un oficial de las fuerzas de seguridad recientemente asesinado.
Sean Duffy, de quien todo el mundo desconfÃa –los católicos por ser policÃa, los protestantes por ser católico-, se empeña en resolver el caso pese a la opinión de sus jefes. Recorre las tensas calles de Belfast y parajes poco amigables de la campiña irlandesa en busca de pistas, sin saber que se está enredando en una peligrosa trama, con ramificaciones en Estados Unidos, que pondrá en peligro no sólo su carrera policial, sino su propia vida. ( )