Hang On St. Christopher, Adrian McKinty
Hang On St. Christopher, Adrian McKinty
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Hang On St. Christopher

Author: Adrian McKinty

Series: Sean Duffy Series #8

Narrator: Gerard Doyle

Unabridged: 9 hr 55 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/04/2025

Synopsis

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.

About Adrian McKinty

How does one graduate from prestigious Oxford University and end up with such a mixture of odd jobs. Such was the life of Irish born author, Adrian McKinty. He was born in Belfast, Ireland in 1968 as number four of five children. His father was a welder and boilermaker, but then became a merchant seaman. Adrian grew up reading crime novels and science fiction.

McKinty moved to New York City after receiving his Oxford degree, where he lived in Harlem. This is where the Oxford graduate took jobs as bartender, security guard, bookstore clerk, rugby coach, door to door salesman, and librarian for the Columbia University Medical School Library. After that, Adrian moved to Denver, Colorado where he was a high school English teacher. During this phase of his career, he began writing fiction with his first novel being, Dead I Well May Be. It received great recognition from peer review publishers. The next award winning novel was the sequel to his first entitled, The Dead Yard.

McKinty and his wife moved to Melbourne, Australia in 2008 with their children.

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Quotes

“Duffy is never one to take the easy route…An outstanding new installment in the award-winning police procedural series featuring lone wolf Sean Duffy and set during the Troubles.” Library Journal (starred review)

“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.” Publishers Weekly

“McKinty is offering something special: a glorious reading experience. The novel is constant invention at a high level, in prose that blooms on the page. The staples of hard-boiled—chases, gunplay, capture, fist fights—are deployed in scenes that squirm with energy. And, yes, an abundance of dry humor.” Booklist

“[The Cold Cold Ground] is the best crime novel mystery that I’ve read in a long time…[McKinty is] a great writer.” NPR, praise for the author

“McKinty’s Sean Duffy, policing the mean streets of 1985 Northern Ireland, tackles gun runners, arms dealers, MI5, and a mysterious double murder—or is it a triple?—in the fourth installment of this terrific series.” The Boston Globe, praise for the series

“McKinty continues to astound me…[His] novels are, in my mind, already elevated to canonical status…McKinty takes the time-tested conventions of the mystery genre and builds a narrative utterly unique and compelling over them…In short, McKinty has learned from the masters, and in my opinion, now is one.” Mystery People, praise for the author

“Mixes a mordant wit and casual, unpredictable violence that vividly portrays a turbulent time…McKinty is in full command of language, plot, and setting in a terrifying period of history that sometimes seems forgotten.” Library Journal (starred review), praise for the series

“Golden Voice narrator Gerard Doyle once again brings the quirkiness and erudition of DI Sean Duffy to life…Doyle’s slyly humorous tone makes the story feel like a caper at times as he revels in Duffy’s unorthodox approach to his work, the Troubles, and justice, and makes the listener hope that the DI’s decision to pension off will be reversed.” AudioFile

“Duffy is attentive to both the gritty appeal of the city [of Belfast] and green beauty of the countryside. He invokes Ireland’s ancient history as easily as recalling an anecdote…Hang On St. Christopher exceeds expectations in a full-throttle resolution…that is about more than just killing all the bad guys.” The Minnesota Star Tribune

“This is Duffy’s most violent and dangerous case yet.” Bookish Live Journal

Awards

  • Booklist Queen Pick
  • Dayton Daily News
  • Audible Pick
  • Amazon Editors' Pick
  • WGN Pick
  • Boston Globe Pick
  • BookBub
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