Dark Times in the City
  • Published: 15 May 2010
  • ISBN: 9780099532026
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $28.99
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Dark Times in the City

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30 Jun 2011
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15 May 2010
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A riveting page-turner thriller set among Dublin underworld - shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger.

Danny Callaghan is just out of jail and enjoying a quiet drink in a Dublin pub when two men walk in with guns. On impulse, he intervenes to rescue the intended victim, petty criminal Walter Bennett, and finds himself dragged into Dublin's murky underworld. As the police grope for answers and Danny struggles to protect those he loves, the rising tensions between the gangs threaten to erupt into a bloody showdown.

Dark Times in the City portrays a society stumbling from prosperity to uncertainty - where cocaine and easy money have fuelled a ruthless gang culture and a man's impulsive decency may cost him the lives of those who matter most.
  • Published: 15 May 2010
  • ISBN: 9780099532026
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $28.99
Categories:

About the author

Gene Kerrigan

Veteran journalist Gene Kerrigan is the author of four acclaimed novels, the most recent of which, The Rage, won the CWA Gold Dagger for Best Crime Novel of the Year.

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Praise for Dark Times in the City

Cruelly authentic... a very fine crime novel

Sunday Independent (Ireland)

The writing in Dark Times is urgent and uncluttered, the plotting taut...Kerrigan's real coup lies in his assured portrayal of Danny Callaghan, a man with a chequered history but more than a flicker of humanity

Daragh Reddin, Metro

Gene Kerrigan is a great writer

Roddy Doyle

Brilliant... Unbearably tense... stomach-churningly frightening

Observer

Exhilarating... Pacy, suspenseful... Opens with a bang

Sunday Times

His style is taught and his dialogue pings and fizzes. I just have one question. When's the next instalment due?

Irish Times

Gene Kerrigan's writing is magnificent. It's graceful, tough, hardboiled and tender, razor-sharp and gritty as it is lyrical and truthful

Joseph O'Connor

Muscular writing, a smart line in self-deprecating humour, terrific dialogue and an engrossing portrayal of the sights and sounds of Dublin noir

The Times