Of Wee Sweetie Mice and Men: A Dan Starkey Mystery - Softcover

Bateman, Colin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1611458625 ISBN 13: 9781611458626

Publisher: Arcade, 2014

Synopsis

Journalist Dan Starkey, hero of Divorcing Jack, is back, a few Guinnesses past sober, but quick as ever with the sarcastic rejoinder—and this time his knack for adventure, and misadventure, takes him to the unsuspecting streets of New York

About this title

About the Author:

Colin Bateman was born in Northern Ireland in 1963, and began his writing career as a reporter for the County Down Spectator. Since then, he has authored 14 novels, 4 children’s books, and numerous short stories. Bateman also served as chief writer for the BBC series “Murphy’s Law.”

From Kirkus Reviews:

Knockabout journalist Dan Starkey leaves the mean streets of Belfast for a season of even more violent insanity in the world of professional boxing. Meet Bobby ``Fat Boy'' McMaster, the heavyweight champ of Ireland. Haven't heard of him? That's just the reason Bobby's mentor, Geordie McClean, needs to hire Starkey to do public relations for Bobby's upcoming world championship bout with Mike Tyson (!) and write a book about it all after the champ's given Bobby, a wee sweetie who reads novels and has a sly sense of humor, a decent burial in New York. It looks like a great chance for Starkey to make some money and get out of the war zone he covered so hilariously in Divorcing Jack (1995) while enjoying a much-needed second honeymoon with his estranged wife Patricia. But Patricia, pregnant by her married lover, isn't about to book passage for the New World, so Starkey packs a few clean shirts and takes off with Bobby's entourage for the Big Apple, where Bobby will run rings around Tyson in a joint press conference and immediately incur the wrath of the Sons of Muhammed, a splinter group as violent as the Provos but a lot more inept. Then Bobby's wife Mary is kidnapped, presumably by the Sons of Muhammed, and Starkey is dragged into the fray by two heavyweight ex-NYPD detectives who dwarf even the Fat Boy. But how can Starkey really be sure that it's the Sons who are behind the snatch, when Bobby, training in Provincetown, has also managed to antagonize the gay community, the IRA, and the ferocious sparring partner who keeps threatening to end his career before he even makes it into the ring with Tyson? More relaxed and less wildly funny than Divorcing Jack or Cycle of Violence (1996)--but then that's what you'd expect when the brutality is only a game. -- Copyright ©1997, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

About this edition

• Publisher: Arcade
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1611458625
• ISBN 13: 9781611458626
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336