Putting the Boot In

Wickedly funny, this is the third novel in the elusive Dan Kavanagh's London-based crime series featuring bisexual private detective Duffy.

Things are hotting up in the Third Division and it seems someone's nobbling players. Following the loss of one of his best strikers, Jimmy Lister, former England player and now ineffectual club manager, calls on the expertise of the inimitable Duffy.

Duffy must investigate the troubled world of lower-league football while also facing questions of his possible encounter with AIDS, whether he's cooked his frozen pizza for too long and whether he's too short to be a decent goalkeeper.

“Exciting, funny and refreshingly nastyThe characterization is exact, the action gripping, and the writing pleasantly ironic - THE TIMESDan Kavanagh effortlessly jumped to the top of the crime writer's league - SPECTATORTreat yourself. One of the most colourful and entertaining English thrillers - EVENING STANDARD”

Exciting, funny and refreshingly nasty

The characterization is exact, the action gripping, and the writing pleasantly ironic - THE TIMES

Dan Kavanagh effortlessly jumped to the top of the crime writer's league - SPECTATOR

Treat yourself. One of the most colourful and entertaining English thrillers - EVENING STANDARD

Dan Kavanagh was born in County Sligo in 1946. Having devoted his adolescence to truancy, venery and petty theft, he left home at 17 and signed on as a deckhand on a Liberian tanker. After jumping ship at Montevideo, he roamed across the Americas taking a variety of jobs: he was a steer-wrestler, a waiter-on-roller-skates at a drive-in eatery in Tucson, and a bouncer in a gay bar in San Francisco. He is currently working in London at jobs he declines to specify, and lives in north Islington.

Wickedly funny, this is the third novel in the elusive Dan Kavanagh's London-based crime series featuring bisexual private detective Duffy. Things are hotting up in the Third Division and it seems someone's nobbling players. Following the loss of one of his best strikers, Jimmy Lister, former England player and now ineffectual club manager, calls on the expertise of the inimitable Duffy.Duffy must investigate the troubled world of lower-league football while also facing questions of his possible encounter with AIDS, whether he's cooked his frozen pizza for too long and whether he's too short to be a decent goalkeeper.

This item is eligible for free returns within 30 days of delivery. See our returns policy for further details.