Ray Banks, Author . PointBlank $29.95 (176p) ISBN 978-1-930997-37-0
In his diverting noir debut, British author Banks pulls off the challenge of creating a repellent protagonist with few virtues who still manages to engage the reader. A salesman of double-glazed windows, Alan Slater feels his bleak life begin to...
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Ray Banks, Author . Harcourt $25 (312p) ISBN 978-0-15-101322-7
British author Banks fulfills the promise of 2000's The Big Blind
with this tough and assured crime novel. Callum Innes, recently released from prison, works as an unlicensed PI in Manchester, England. His brother, Declan, has gone home to...
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Ray Banks, Author . Houghton Mifflin Harcourt $25 (277p) ISBN 978-0-15-101323-4
At the start of Banks’s excellent sequel to 2008’s Saturday’s Child
, Manchester PI and ex-con Callum Innes is taking a break from the investigation business by working as a caretaker at the Lad’s Club, a boxing gym run by...
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Ray Banks, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt $25 (261p) ISBN 978-0-15-101459-0
Cal Innes matches wits (and fists) with a nasty bunch of neo-Nazis in British author Banks’s solid third novel featuring the down-on-his-luck Manchester PI (after Sucker Punch
). When one of slum lord Donald Plummer’s properties gets...
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Ray Banks. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $25 (304p) ISBN 978-0-15-101453-8
British author Banks's fourth and most definitely last Cal Innes novel (after No More Heroes) finds the self-destructive Manchester PI recovering from a drug-induced stroke that's left him barely able to speak. Spurred by the recent death of his...
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