Cycle of Violence - Softcover
This beautifully plotted, page-turning new novel confirms all the promise of Colin Bateman's Divorcing Jack without restraining his antic blend of sinister violence and sharp, side-splitting dialogue. Cycle of Violence, written with appealing verve and Colin Bateman's unique blend of sinister violence and side-splitting dialogue, is a thrill ride through Belfast's most terrifying neighborhood with Miller, Ulster's wisecracking, bicycling journalist and his ""cycle of violence."" Miller's ever-so-smart aleck mouth has earned him a disciplinary transfer from his downtown Belfast beat to Crossmaheart, a beleaguered and depressed outpost where the preferred response to murder is a hilarious one-liner. Miller is replacing a reporter who has disappeared-to no one's great surprise in this postterrorist ghetto full of leftover guns, plentiful whiskey, and a secret more sordid than the locals' resumés of political ""activism."" Crossmaheart is a notoriously fatal place in which to ask questions, and Miller is determined to forgo his professional curiosity, to compromise his journalist's integrity in the interest of staying live. He is particularly intent on keeping himself clear of whatever involvements caused the job opening at the Crossmaheart Chronicle in the first place. But once he falls for his predecessor's troubled girlfriend, Marie-a former Catholic schoolgirl to complement Miller's own Protestant heritage-his plan begins to fall apart. Darkly funny, romantic, disturbing, and suspenseful, Cycle of Violence confirms all the promise of Bateman's prizewinning debut, Divorcing Jack.
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About the Author:
Bicycling journalist Miller is exiled from his big-city paper to small-town Crossmaheart. There, he is to replace another reporter, Jamie Milburn, who has disappeared – to no one's great surprise, since Crossmaheart is a notoriously fatal place in which to ask questions.
Miller aims to keep his head down, but as soon as he gets involved with Jamie's girlfriend Marie, that plan, and much else besides, begins to fall apart.
Darkly funny, romantic, disturbing and suspenseful, 'Cycle of Violence' is the brilliant new novel from the author of the bestselling 'Divorcing Jack'.
"An Ulster Carl Hiaasen"
MAIL ON SUNDAY
'Divorcing Jack:'
"A joy from start to finish...Witty, fast-paced and throbbing with menace, 'Divorcing Jack' reads like 'The Thirty-Nine Steps' rewritten for the '90s by Roddy Doyle"
TIME OUT
"Will do for Belfast and South Armagh what Bram Stoker did for Transylvania"
RTE GUIDE
"As sharp as a pint of snake-bite...manages to say more about the Troubles in 280 vivid pages than reams of earnest reportage ever could"
SUNDAY TIMES
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.
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- PublisherArcade Pub
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 1611451388
- ISBN 13 9781611451382
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages256
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