Saturday's Child (Cal Innes) - Hardcover

Banks, Ray

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0151013225 ISBN 13: 9780151013227

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2008

Synopsis

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 doesn’t owe, Innes is thrust into a cat-and-mouse game with Tiernan’s psychotic son, Mo. Ordered to track down a rogue casino dealer who’s absconded with a hefty chunk of cash, Innes finds that the case points north to Newcastle. With Tiernan’s son on his tail and a Manchester cop determined to put Innes back in jail, Saturday’s child has to work hard to keep living.

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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, Saturday’s Child, Sucker Punch, and No More Heroes, he was born in Kirkcaldy, Scotland, and now lives in Edinburgh.

 

From the Back Cover

"A knock-out, written with the kind of energy and passion that far too few writers can muster. Fresh and fierce, Saturday s Child raises the bar for hardboiled fiction."?Laura Lippman, author of New York Times bestseller What the Dead Know

ADVANCE PRAISE FOR SATURDAY S CHILD

"Saturday's Child is fascinating, fresh, and darkly funny."?Thomas Perry, bestselling author of Silence

"One of the finest P.I. novels of the year . . . The future of U.K. detective fiction is Ray Banks."?Jason Starr, author of The Follower

"A savage hardboiled spanking, Saturday s Child will leave you begging for more."?Victor Gischler, author of Shotgun Opera

"Banks takes the Brit noir thriller format and gives it a damn good and much deserved kicking."?Martyn Waites, author of The Mercy Seat

"Ray Banks steps up into the majors . . . I d love to read what tops this."?Ken Bruen, Shamus-winning author of The Guards

"Banks mixes sharp humor with crackling dialogue in a wild ride across the pond. Saturday s Child is a page turner, start to finish."?Charlie Stella, author of Mafiya: A Novel of Crime

From the Inside Flap

"Fast, funny, and hard as nails, Saturday s Child proves to America what the UK already knows: There s a heart in the darkness of today s finest crime fiction, and Ray Banks will take you there. Buckle up."?Sean Doolittle, author of the Barry-winning The Cleanup

"Ray Banks s writing is a dark delight, and Saturday s Child is like blunt surgery from a cricket bat. Fast, hard, packed with madcap violence and twisted humor, it s a bone-jarring ride through England s bleak underbelly . . . I can t 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 doesn t owe, Innes is thrust into a cat-and-mouse game with Tiernan s psychotic son, Mo. Ordered to track down a rogue casino dealer who s absconded with a hefty chunk of cash, Innes finds that the case points north to Newcastle. With Tiernan s son on his tail and a Manchester cop determined to put Innes back in jail, Saturday s child has to work hard to keep living.

Reviews

British author Banks fulfills the promise of 2000's The Big Blind with this tough and assured crime novel. Callum Innes, recently released from prison, works as an unlicensed PI in Manchester, England. His brother, Declan, has gone home to Edinburgh to kick his heroin habit, and Innes is determined to stay straight this time as well. Morris Tiernan, local crime boss and Innes's former employer, however, insists that he complete one final job: tracking down the blackjack dealer who has disappeared with Tiernan's 16-year-old daughter, Alison, and a sizable chunk of his money. Complicating matters is Tiernan's son, Morris Junior (or Mo), a psychotic speed freak, who vows to overthrow his father's underworld reign. Mo despises Innes, envies the respect his father gives him and decides to show them both what he's really capable of. The results, inevitably, are both comically inept and violent. Some American readers may struggle a bit with Tiernan's street dialect, but like Ken Bruen and Allan Guthrie, Banks is updating the noir novel with an utterly original sensibility. (Jan.)
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Edition details

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0151013225
• ISBN 13: 9780151013227
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320