The Dan Starkey Series - Book 1
Divorcing Jack
“In Colin Bateman’s first novel, Divorcing Jack, a witty Belfast newspaper columnist named Dan Starkey gets drunk, falls in lust, and finds himself helplessly mired in trouble with his wife and the law…Dan Starkey makes an entertaining guide to war-torn Northern Ireland, even while he discovers again and again that the pen is not mightier than the sword.”
Amazon.com, editorial review
Dan Starkey is a young journalist in Belfast who shares with his wife, Patricia, a prodigious appetite for drinking and dancing. Then Dan meets a beautiful and apparently impoverished student who, terrifyingly, is soon murdered. Was it because she was not exactly who she claimed to be? Was it the IRA? A Protestant extremist group? A jealous lover? Before long, Dan is a target himself.
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