Divorcing Jack - Couverture souple

Bateman, Colin

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0006513794 ISBN 13 : 9780006513797

Editeur : HarperCollins, 2001

Synopsis

Fast, funny, scary. A truly up-to-the-minute novel set in Belfast from a brilliant new writer. Now a major BBC/Scala film starring David Thewlis and Robert Lindsay.

Dan Starkey is a young journalist in Belfast, who shares with his wife, Patricia, a prodigious 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, terrifyingly, Margaret is murdered. Is it because of her liaison with Dan? Is it because she was not exactly who she claimed to be? Is it the IRA? A Protestant extremist group? A jealous lover? Before long, Dan is a target himself, running as fast as he can in a race against time to crack the mystery and save his marriage.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Colin Bateman was born in Northern Ireland in 1962 and educated at Bangor Grammar School before joining the ‘County Down Spectator’, where he became the deputy editor until 1996. In 1990 he received a Journalist’s Fellowship to Oxford University for his reports from Uganda and has received a Northern Ireland Press Award for his weekly satirical column. He won the Betty Trask Award in 1994.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

"A Joy From Start to finish… Witty, fast-paced and throbbing with menace, divorcing Jack reads like the thirty-nine steps rewritten for the 90's by Roddy Doyle."
Time Out

Dan Starkey is a young journalist in Belfast, who shares with his wife, Patricia, a prodigious 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, terrifyingly, Margaret is murdered. Is it because of her liaison with Dan? Is it because she was not exactly who she claimed to be? Is it the IRA? A Protestant extremist group? A jealous lover? Before long, Dan is a target himself, running as fast as he can in a race against time to crack the mystery and save his marriage.

"Grabs you by the throat… a magnificent debut. Unlike any thriller you have ever read before…Like the day of the Jackal out of the Marx Brothers."
SUNDAY POST

"Fresh, funny… an Ulster Carl Hiaasen"
MAIL ON SUNDAY

"Will do for Belfast and South Armagh what Bram Stoker did for Transylvania."
RTE GUIDE

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: HarperCollins
• Date d'édition: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0006513794
• ISBN 13: 9780006513797
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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