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Falling Glass Finished

I admire writers who are ambitious, and this is very much an ambitious novel.  McKinty doesn't quite pull it off, but  . . .

Killian decides that to save Rachel, he has to kill the lawyer and the airline CEO. The lawyer OD's, the CEO is shot in the head.  Killian escapes.  He returns to his "Tinker" roots but is found by the man who hired him to find Rachel in the first place.  "I can't let you get away with failing to do the job."

Is our "hero" going to get killed?  Book ends with Killian trying to talk his killer out of killing him.

Along the way there are interesting musings on life, art, Tinkers, architecture, relationships, butterflies, migratory birds.  As I said, ambitious . . .

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