Dan Starkey is a journalist in Belfast, who shares with his wife Patricia an appetite for drinking and dancing. Then Dan meets Margaret, a beautiful and apparently impoverished student, and things begin to get out of hand. And then Margaret is murdered. This novel won the 1994 Betty Trask Prize.
Dan StarkeySéries
Cette série suit un journaliste naviguant dans le monde turbulent du conflit nord-irlandais. À chaque affaire, il plonge plus profondément dans les intrigues politiques et les drames personnels qui façonnent sa vie et sa ville. Les lecteurs peuvent s'attendre à des enquêtes captivantes où les frontières entre le bien et le mal sont constamment brouillées. C'est un regard fascinant sur le journalisme en temps de crise.






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Of Wee Sweetie Mice and Men
- 448pages
- 16 heures de lecture
The gloves are off - Dan Starkey is back in an all-American adventure
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Turbulent Priests
- 407pages
- 15 heures de lecture
Dan Starkey returns! An hilarious, compelling, endlessly inventive novel featuring one of Bateman's best loved characters
- 4
Shooting Sean
- 352pages
- 13 heures de lecture
Cannes, killing and kidnap from the author of MYSTERY MAN, a Richard and Judy choice
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The Horse With My Name
- 352pages
- 13 heures de lecture
Ex-journalist Dan Starkey is stuck in a grimy Belfast bedsit. His life is a disaster, and his only solace is the pub around the corner. He really, really needs something to get his teeth into. Fellow ex-journalist Mark Corkery provides that something. Corkery, an Internet horseracing gossip, wants him to investigate Geordie McClean, the man behind Irish American Racing
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Driving Big Davie
- 384pages
- 14 heures de lecture
A witty, fast-paced novel featuring Dan Starkey, the international man of inaction, by bestselling Irish author Bateman.
- 7
Celebrity scandal, revenge, and a very big mouse...
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Dan Starkey returns! An hilarious, compelling, endlessly inventive new novel featuring one of Bateman's best loved characters
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Fire and Brimstone
- 400pages
- 14 heures de lecture
Peace time Belfast seems like the perfect spot for media billionaire's daughter Alison Wolff to study anonymously, but when she disappears following a massacre at a student party nobody knows if she has been kidnapped for ransom or caught in the crossfire. Hired to find Alison, Dan Starkey discovers that Belfast's underworld has shifted rapidly since he was in his journalistic prime. Religion and politics have taken a back seat to drugs and greed, defended with a ruthlessness undreamt of even in the worst days of The Troubles. This is the street violence of Mexico with an Irish twist. In response to the drug wars a new fire and brimstone church movement springs up, but when the controversial new abortion clinic is firebombed, they get the blame and Dan is hired to prove their guilt.In a Belfast rapidly descending back into a city of violence, Dan suddenly finds himself struggling to cope with two very different investigations..... or could they possibly be connected?