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Still, the Victory had a colourful history, even by the standards of New York, where any hotel worthy of the name collects incidents of infamy just by existing in the city that doesn\u2019t sleep \u2013 or if it does, it sleeps with someone else\u2019s partner.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Caimh McDonnell\u2019s Dublin Trilogy<\/strong> series has come completely loose from its moorings. The trilogy is done, but the characters continue in further adventures, and I\u2019m perfectly fine with that. Because they\u2019re so much fun.<\/p>\n
In Disaster Inc.<\/a><\/em>, the first book of a new series, we are reunited with big, bibulous Bunny McGarry, former Dublin policeman. Officially he\u2019s dead and buried, but in fact he’s been transported to the United States by a shadowy group possibly connected to the CIA. They\u2019ve equipped him with a debit card and an indestructible cell phone, to facilitate his search for the love of his life. She\u2019s a jazz singer named Simone, and has lived her life on the run from other shadowy agents, because she \u201cknows too much.\u201d<\/p>\n
Unfortunately for Bunny, as the book starts he\u2019s eating an unsatisfactory breakfast in a roadside diner, having been robbed of his rucksack, which contained the card and the phone, during a drunken binge. As he\u2019s pondering his next move a pair of masked gunmen invade the diner, announcing that this is a robbery. Bunny immediately identifies them as amateurs, and neutralizes them. Then he beelines for the door, because he\u2019s in the US illegally and he\u2019d rather not explain himself to the police.<\/p>\n
But a car pulls up in front of him on the highway. Inside is a woman who was also in the diner. The robbers, she says, were actually there to kill her. She, too, \u201cknows too much.\u201d If Bunny can come to New York and help her get out of her problem, she\u2019ll pay him a lot of money. After some hesitation, Bunny accepts, figuring he can find whoever stole his rucksack at the same time.<\/p>\n
Which kicks off a highly improbable, but extremely enjoyable, adventure. McDonnell\u2019s trademark wit is well in evidence, though I found a couple editorial errors \u2013 a wrong word choice and a confusion of attributions in a stretch of dialogue.<\/p>\n
But still it was a lot of fun, and I recommend it \u2013 if you can handle the obscenities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Still, the Victory had a colourful history, even by the standards of New York, where any hotel worthy of the name collects incidents of infamy just by existing in the city that doesn\u2019t sleep \u2013 or if it does, it sleeps with someone else\u2019s partner. Caimh McDonnell\u2019s Dublin Trilogy series has come completely loose from … Continue reading ‘Disaster Inc.’ by Caimh McDonnell<\/span>