Synopses & Reviews
"Fast, funny, and hard as nails,
Saturdays Child proves to America what the UK already knows: Theres a heart in the darkness of todays finest crime fiction, and Ray Banks will take you there. Buckle up."Sean Doolittle, author of the Barry-winning
The Cleanup"Ray Bankss writing is a dark delight, and Saturdays Child is like blunt surgery from a cricket bat. Fast, hard, packed with madcap violence and twisted humor, its a bone-jarring ride through Englands bleak underbelly . . . I cant recommend this one enough."Patrick Quinlin, author of The Takedown
Cal Innes is fresh out of prison and ducking a past muddied with ties to local gang lord "Uncle" Morris Tiernan. But when Tiernan finds out Innes is working as an unlicensed PI and calls in a favor Innes doesnt owe, Innes is thrust into a cat-and-mouse game with Tiernans psychotic son, Mo. Ordered to track down a rogue casino dealer whos absconded with a hefty chunk of cash, Innes finds that the case points north to Newcastle. With Tiernans son on his tail and a Manchester cop determined to put Innes back in jail, Saturdays child has to work hard to keep living.
Review
PRAISE FOR SATURDAYS CHILD
Saturdays Child is a knockout, written with the kind of energy and passion that far too few writers can muster. Fresh and fierce, it raises the bar for hardboiled fiction on both sides of the Atlantic.”Laura Lippman, author of the
New York Times bestseller
What the Dead Know Audacious and volatile . . . The shabby Manchester /Newcastle world of drugs, booze, and violence is wonderfully described in a vibrant, often hilarious slang.” Boston Globe
Synopsis
Cal Innes is fresh out of prison, working out of a gym closet as a private investigator, and trying to sever his ties to local gang lord Uncle”Morris Tiernan. But when Tiernan hires him to track down a rogue casino dealer whos absconded with a hefty chunk of cash, Innes is thrust into a cat-and-mouse game with Tiernans pill-popping son,Moa game that turns ever more deadly as the case points north to Newcastle.With Tiernans son on his tail and a Manchester cop determined to put Innes back on the spurs, Saturdays child definitely has to work hard to keep living.The explosive first book in a four-book series featuring the down-at-heels private eye Cal Innes.
About the Author
Ray Banks has been a double-glazing salesman, a croupier, a dole monkey, and a disgruntled temp. The author of The Big Blind, Saturdays Child, Sucker Punch, and No More Heroes, he was born in Kirkcaldy, Scotland, and now lives in Edinburgh.