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Saturday's Child

ISBN: 9781904598787
Author: Ray Banks
Imprint: Polygon
Publication Date: May 2006
Format: PB
Price: £8.99
Stock Status: in stock

’Ray Banks’ rapid-fire prose take sno prisnoners. It’s fast, hard and tight, with a story that doesn’t let go until the very last page.’ - Simon Kernick, The Crime Trade

It’s criminal up north . . . Cal Innes is fresh out of Strangeways, playing PI and running from a past muddied with ties to local gang lord ‘Uncle’ Morris Tiernan. When Tiernan tells him to track down a rogue casino dealer who’s absconded with a hefty chunk of cash, Innes is thrust into a cat-and-mouse game with Tiernan’s psychotic son. Finding the thief proves potentially fatal as the case points north to Newcastle and the sordid truth threatens to put blood on his hands. With Tiernan’s son on his tail, and a Manchester cop determined to put Innes back on the spurs, Saturday’s child definitely has to work hard to keep living.

Ray Banks was born in Kirkcaldy and now lives by the sea in Newcastle-upon-Tyne with his lovely wife, Anastasia. He went to school. He went to university for two years before he dropped out. After that, he spent his time as a double-glazing salesman, croupier (he left after the casino was ramraided by armed gunmen) and dole monkey. He thinks he’s a cult. He’s almost right.

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