
God’s Away on Business
Sean Duffy: Year 1 (The Sean Duffy Series)
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Narrated by:
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Gerard Doyle
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By:
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Adrian McKinty
From the New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award-winning author Adrian McKinty comes the origin story of his most famous creation, Detective Sean Duffy.
Belfast, 1980, is the apocalypse. Bombings, riots, army on the streets, low flying helicopters, and ever-present rain. The grinding Northern Irish civil war between Protestants and Catholics has been going for a decade now. Hated by both sides are the police.
Sean Duffy Year 1 takes us into that world. Newly promoted Detective Sergeant Sean Duffy is given his first command at Carrickfergus CID.
In this prequel novella, McKinty takes listeners through Duffy’s first two weeks on the job. A case to solve and a chance to impress his bosses, if, of course, he can get out of it alive.
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Mostly, it was Duffy being Duffy, which is fine. I like Duffy. That's why I've listened to the whole series at least three or four times now. (I listened to the whole thing again before listening to the brand-new novel, Hang on St. Christopher this week.)
There was just something about this little story that bothered me. It kind of felt like McKinty wrote it for the money and not to really explore anything new with our favorite RUC DI. Like I said, it was Duffy being Duffy. I laughed a few times. I enjoyed seeing him move into 113 Coronation Road. But it wasn't new.
I also seem to be the outlier on this, but there's a part where Duffy takes some acid (Duffy likes his alcohol and his recreational drugs, so again, nothing new) and he talks to a dog. And then a tree. On the socials, I saw that a lot of people seemed to really enjoy that. I thought it was ridiculous and was a little peeved that so much of the 1.5 hours of the story was this scene. (However long it lasted, it was too long for me.)
Oh, well. Art is what it is. Subjective.
Gerard Doyle was aces, as usual.
I wanted something ... more
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The story was less than two hours long
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Love Gerard Doyle
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All that to say: give me more Sean Duffy and Michael Forsythe!
More Duffy!
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It is 2025 and I live in Israel. It doesn’t take a genius to know that my mood is terrible. It seems like death is all around here. This war has ruined my soul, but this latest edition to Sean Duffy is uplifting me. Witty, interesting, with accurate descriptions and believable dialogues. And the musical references are exactly to my taste: Johnny Mitchell, Elvis Costello, The Kinks, Cocteau Twins, Led Zeppelin, Gary Newman.
Thank you, Mr. McKinty, you have made me happy for almost 2 hours.
Once again, a real jem
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If you haven’t been listening to this series you’re losing out but maybe this little nugget will change that.
Gerard Doyle is absolute perfection delivering McKinty’s goodness.
EARLY DUFFY
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Perfect writing, balance of humor, and plenty of believable characters
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Terrific
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Sean Duff-heads, Get in Formation
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Gerard Doyle perhaps should get co-writing credit for the way he brings the story vividly to life. And check out McKinty’s sure hand with craft, like the early bit of business where Duffy changes an LP because it doesn’t quite fit his mood and gives us a fun detour into Thelonious Monk. McKinty knows how to tell a tale.
Great Sean Duffy prequel
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