Dan Starkey returns! An exciting, compelling, endlessly inventive new novel featuring one of Bateman's best loved characters.
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Dan Starkey returns! An exciting, compelling, endlessly inventive new novel featuring one of Bateman's best loved characters.
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Hired to find the missing son of retired political activist Moira Doherty, Dan Starkey knows his new case is going to be challenging. Billy 'the Bear' Doherty isn't an easy man to find - a criminal with a nasty drug habit, his mother is convinced he's been murdered.
But when Moira herself is killed, her body found floating in the waters under Londonderry's Peace Bridge, Dan finds himself in the middle of a deadly game of cat and mouse. Already in unfamiliar territory, Starkey is quickly embroiled in the city's porn and drug fuelled underworld, where a new generation of gangster terrorist is intent on creating mayhem their predecessors could only dream of...Critic Reviews
“Fast and furious”
He just seems to get better and better!
A dark and brilliant champion of wordsFast paced and throbbing with menace - Time OutSometimes brutal, often blackly humorous and always terrific. - ObserverAbout the Author
Bateman was a journalist in Northern Ireland before becoming a full-time writer. His first novel, DIVORCING JACK, won the Betty Trask Prize, and all his novels have been critically acclaimed. He wrote the screenplays for the feature films DIVORCING JACK (starring David Thewlis, 1988) and the popular TV series MURPHY'S LAW starring James Nesbitt.
Bateman has been awarded an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Letters from the University of Ulster for services to literature. Bateman lives in Ireland with his family.Hired to find the missing son of retired political activist Moira Doherty, Dan Starkey knows his new case is going to be challenging. Billy 'the Bear' Doherty isn't an easy man to find - a criminal with a nasty drug habit, his mother is convinced he's been murdered.But when Moira herself is killed, her body found floating in the waters under Londonderry's Peace Bridge, Dan finds himself in the middle of a deadly game of cat and mouse. Already in unfamiliar territory, Starkey is quickly embroiled in the city's porn and drug fuelled underworld, where a new generation of gangster terrorist is intent on creating mayhem their predecessors could only dream of...
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