Saturday's Child - Paperback

by Ray Banks (Author)

Cal Innes is fresh out of prison, working out of a gym closet as a private investigator, and trying to sever his ties to local gang lord "Uncle"Morris Tiernan. But when Tiernan hires 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 pill-popping son, Mo--a game that turns ever more deadly as the case points north to Newcastle.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.The explosive first book in a four-book series featuring the down-at-heels private eye Cal Innes.

Front Jacket

Fast, funny, and hard as nails, Saturday s Child proves to America what the UK already knows: There s a heart in the darkness of today s finest crime fiction, and Ray Banks will take you there. Buckle up. Sean Doolittle, author of the Barry-winningThe Cleanup

"Ray Banks s writing is a dark delight, and Saturday s Child is like blunt surgery from a cricket bat. Fast, hard, packed with madcap violence and twisted humor, it s a bone-jarring ride through England s bleak underbelly . . . I can t recommend this one enough." Patrick Quinlin, author of The Takedown

Cal Innes is fresh out of prison and ducking a past muddied with ties to local gang lord "Uncle" Morris Tiernan. But when Tiernan finds out Innes is working as an unlicensed PI and calls in a favor Innes doesn t owe, Innes is thrust into a cat-and-mouse game with Tiernan s psychotic son, Mo. Ordered to track down a rogue casino dealer who s absconded with a hefty chunk of cash, Innes finds that the case points north to Newcastle. With Tiernan s son on his tail and a Manchester cop determined to put Innes back in jail, Saturday s child has to work hard to keep living. "

Back Jacket

The explosive first book in a four-book series featuringManchester private eye Cal Innes.Cal Innes is fresh out of prison, working out of a gym closet as a private investigator, and trying to sever his ties to local gang lord Uncle Morris Tiernan. But when Tiernan hires 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 pill-popping son, Mo a game that turns ever more deadly as the case points north to Newcastle.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."A knock-out, written with the kind of energy and passion that far too few writers can muster. Fresh and fierce, Saturday s Child raises the bar for hardboiled fiction." Laura Lippman, author of New York Times bestseller What the Dead Know

"Rough-and-tumble noir with a severe edge." Sacramento Bee"