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Dan Starkey series by Colin Bateman (book # 2,3,8)
Requirements: .ePub reader, 1,266 KB
Overview: Colin 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 of DIVORCING JACK, CROSSMAHEART and WILD ABOUT HARRY. He lives in Northern Ireland with his family.
Genre: Mystery & Thrillers
Of Wee Sweetie Mice And Men (Dan Starkey #2)
Dan Starkey has signed on to cover the heavy-weight title fight between the Irish national champion, Fat Boy McMaster, and Iron Mike Tyson. McMaster is a far cry from Evander Holyfield - he's not even shouting distance from blubbery Buster Douglas - but despite the hundred-to-one odds against them, the St. Patrick's Day fight promises to be a monstrous payday for the entire Irish contingent: Fat Boy himself, his wife (the only Catholic in the whole bunch), his doddering trainer, his small-time manager, and his childhood chum turned recently unemployed terrorist. And Starkey himself, who is more desperate than even this ragged bunch for a relaxing sojourn away from the bloody conflict of his homeland - and of his home itself, where his marriage is dissolving as quickly as the ceasefire. But when the stakes are this high, the Big Apple has more to dish out than fat paychecks and peaceful vacations. At his prefight press conference, McMaster sets off racial and political mayhem when he makes a few ill-advised remarks about the preponderance of black people in New York City (to the eyes of a born-and-bred Irishman), incurring the immediate enmity of a Black Muslim paramilitary group. And despite everyone's best efforts to turn the fight into a feel-good Irish version of Rocky v. Apollo Creed, in a city where more residents claim Irish ancestry than there are Irishmen in Ireland, the politics of a Northern Irish Protestant boxer fighting on St. Patrick's Day prove to be as dangerous as they might have been at home in Belfast. As Starkey's quiet holiday crumbles, his loser sports chronicle morphs into a quick-paced thriller complete with kidnappings, inner-city commando operations, and an elaborately sinister whale-watching cruise - none of which is enough to stem the flow of Starkey's crackling repartee. It turns out his sidesplittingly funny gallows humor is only that much more inspired when Starkey himself is barely dodging the hangman's noose.
Turbulent Priests (Dan Starkey #3)
Dan Starkey investigates the birth of a new Messiah on a small island off the coast of Ireland. Back together with his wife Patricia and the baby -- Little Stevie -- that resulted from her affair, Dan accepts a curious commission from Cardinal Daley to investigate the tiny island of Wrathlin, where the inhabitants appear to believe that the new Messiah has been born. The child in question turns out to be a girl called Christine, and the local population has become as defensive and generally crazy as the cast of The Crucible. At first it's just funny for Dan and Trish, but fairly soon the mood turns very much darker. Packed with Bateman's trademarket mixture of jokes, shocks and tenderness, Turbulent Priests is his best novel yet.
Nine Inches (Dan Starkey #8)
Dan Starkey, the ducking and diving hapless investigator, takes centre stage again in this brilliant new novel by the master of comic crime. Radio shock-jock and self-styled people's champion Jack Caramac is used to courting controversy - but when his four-year-old son is kidnapped for just one hour, and then sent back with a warning note, he knows he may have finally gone too far. Jack has no choice but to turn to Dan Starkey for help. Recently chucked by his long-suffering wife Patricia, Dan has finally given up on journalism and is now providing a boutique, bespoke service for important people with difficult problems. Dan resolves to catch whoever kidnapped Jack's son - and very soon finds himself in the middle of a violent feud between rival drug gangs, pursued by jealous husbands, unscrupulous property developers and vicious killers as the case spirals ever more out of his control...
Download link:
(Closed Filehost) https://hulkload.com/uddj8hs8cldn
(Closed Filehost) http://www.uploadship.com/b833283d8a72d0d2
Mirrors:
https://drop.download/svag7gum383k/CB.rarr
Requirements: .ePub reader, 1,266 KB
Overview: Colin 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 of DIVORCING JACK, CROSSMAHEART and WILD ABOUT HARRY. He lives in Northern Ireland with his family.
Genre: Mystery & Thrillers
Of Wee Sweetie Mice And Men (Dan Starkey #2)
Dan Starkey has signed on to cover the heavy-weight title fight between the Irish national champion, Fat Boy McMaster, and Iron Mike Tyson. McMaster is a far cry from Evander Holyfield - he's not even shouting distance from blubbery Buster Douglas - but despite the hundred-to-one odds against them, the St. Patrick's Day fight promises to be a monstrous payday for the entire Irish contingent: Fat Boy himself, his wife (the only Catholic in the whole bunch), his doddering trainer, his small-time manager, and his childhood chum turned recently unemployed terrorist. And Starkey himself, who is more desperate than even this ragged bunch for a relaxing sojourn away from the bloody conflict of his homeland - and of his home itself, where his marriage is dissolving as quickly as the ceasefire. But when the stakes are this high, the Big Apple has more to dish out than fat paychecks and peaceful vacations. At his prefight press conference, McMaster sets off racial and political mayhem when he makes a few ill-advised remarks about the preponderance of black people in New York City (to the eyes of a born-and-bred Irishman), incurring the immediate enmity of a Black Muslim paramilitary group. And despite everyone's best efforts to turn the fight into a feel-good Irish version of Rocky v. Apollo Creed, in a city where more residents claim Irish ancestry than there are Irishmen in Ireland, the politics of a Northern Irish Protestant boxer fighting on St. Patrick's Day prove to be as dangerous as they might have been at home in Belfast. As Starkey's quiet holiday crumbles, his loser sports chronicle morphs into a quick-paced thriller complete with kidnappings, inner-city commando operations, and an elaborately sinister whale-watching cruise - none of which is enough to stem the flow of Starkey's crackling repartee. It turns out his sidesplittingly funny gallows humor is only that much more inspired when Starkey himself is barely dodging the hangman's noose.
Turbulent Priests (Dan Starkey #3)
Dan Starkey investigates the birth of a new Messiah on a small island off the coast of Ireland. Back together with his wife Patricia and the baby -- Little Stevie -- that resulted from her affair, Dan accepts a curious commission from Cardinal Daley to investigate the tiny island of Wrathlin, where the inhabitants appear to believe that the new Messiah has been born. The child in question turns out to be a girl called Christine, and the local population has become as defensive and generally crazy as the cast of The Crucible. At first it's just funny for Dan and Trish, but fairly soon the mood turns very much darker. Packed with Bateman's trademarket mixture of jokes, shocks and tenderness, Turbulent Priests is his best novel yet.
Nine Inches (Dan Starkey #8)
Dan Starkey, the ducking and diving hapless investigator, takes centre stage again in this brilliant new novel by the master of comic crime. Radio shock-jock and self-styled people's champion Jack Caramac is used to courting controversy - but when his four-year-old son is kidnapped for just one hour, and then sent back with a warning note, he knows he may have finally gone too far. Jack has no choice but to turn to Dan Starkey for help. Recently chucked by his long-suffering wife Patricia, Dan has finally given up on journalism and is now providing a boutique, bespoke service for important people with difficult problems. Dan resolves to catch whoever kidnapped Jack's son - and very soon finds himself in the middle of a violent feud between rival drug gangs, pursued by jealous husbands, unscrupulous property developers and vicious killers as the case spirals ever more out of his control...
Download link:
(Closed Filehost) https://hulkload.com/uddj8hs8cldn
(Closed Filehost) http://www.uploadship.com/b833283d8a72d0d2
Mirrors:
https://drop.download/svag7gum383k/CB.rarr
Download links replaced - December 2019.