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Post by benedictjjones on May 11, 2011 11:23:36 GMT
I've read the first two in this series of 'PI' books ('Saturday's Child' and 'Donkey Punch') by Ray Banks involving his low-rent Mancunian PI Cal Innes - bleak and hyper-realistic. no guns in the first book which made the characters all the more believable and the violence hard-core close in stuff. In these books noone gets up from a beating brushes themselves off and walks away - bruises, and worse, last!
'saturdays' child' - Cal Innes, recently released from prison, is working as low rent PI (evictions fro slum lords etc) and caretaker at a boxing club while struggling to deal with what prison has done to him - and what happened there. Uncle Morris Tiernan (who Innes worked for when he was sent to Strangeways) wants Cal to find a croupier who has gone missing along with cash from an illegal gaming club - but is that the real reason Tiernan wants the croupier found? Told in double first person from the POV of Innes and Uncle Morris' son Mo this a bleak and violent tale firmly in the neo-noir stable.
'donkey punch'-cal accompanies a young boxer to LA to participate in a competition. deals with some of the fallout and repercussions of the first novel.
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