Divorcing Jack: A Dan Starkey Mystery (Dan Starkey Mysteries)

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However, I was disappointed in the last quarter of the book when it slowed down a lot and got to be quite boring. Máte tu hrdinu, novináře a alkoholika, který hned zpočátku zahne své manželce, skončí u milenky, která je ovšem vzápětí zavražděná a podezření padne samozřejmě na něj. Once on the job, Kane must also deal with a young sharpshooter named Billy Young and a sharp and sassy saloon dancer, Lily.

It turns what happened was Dan’s lover Margaret is the daughter of David McGarry, political ally of Mark Brinn, who is the front runner for prime minister of Northern Ireland at the upcoming election that is less than two weeks away. All for a reader to discover as you spend some time with Dan Starkey, a newspaper columnist in blood soaked Belfast who could surely also make a living doing stand-up comedy.There's a little piece of trivia in the book that almost passes unnoticed but it is enough to make me not want to find out more about the game of Irish roulette: it involves a petrol bomb and an ability to blow out matches very quickly.

On a political level, the film is naive and simplistic, but as a comedy thriller it has plenty going for it, not least the amusing, charged central performance of Thewlis as the diffident innocent who finds himself involved in nasty business. Griffiths appears in a brief but spectacular role as a nurse temporarily dressed up as a sexy nun; she comes to the rescue when Starkey — who takes a great deal of punishment during the course of the film — needs urgent medical attention. Colin Bateman’s screenplay, based on his novel, covers a lot of ground, but could have been tidied up for the screen.

Taxi driver - Bronagh Gallagher Camera (Rank color), James Welland; editor, Nick Moore; music, Adrian Johnston; production design, Claire Kenny; art director, Tom McCullagh; costume designer, Pam Tait; sound (Dolby digital), Mervyn Moore; assistant director, Mary Soan; line producer, Jane Robertson; casting, Ros and John Hubbard. Starkey and Parker are taken to a council block Keegan controls, where Keegan threatens to kill Parker unless Starkey hands over the tape. After surviving an assault from a squad of hit men, retired CIA black ops agent Frank Moses reassembles his old team for an all-out war. One evening, drunkenly making his way through a city park, he meets the attractive Margaret (Laura Fraser) and soon finds himself spending the night in her loft apartment.

That is the period of time when the Irish Republican Army was still very active since it is the period before the Good Friday Agreement in 1998. In a review for Eye for Film, Angus Wolfe Murray wrote, "The film starts well and slowly loses credibility. By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. The novel was well received by Christina Hardyment of The Independent, who stated that " James Nesbitt's almost edible Irish voice enhances the wit and wizardry of a story that is as much a mystery novel as a romance, and which deservedly won the Betty Trask Award in 1994". While Starkey is at Cooper's apartment, she plays a piece of classic music, by the Czech composer Antonín Dvořák.A Joy From Start to finish… Witty, fast-paced and throbbing with menace, divorcing Jack reads like the thirty-nine steps rewritten for the 90's by Roddy Doyle. Starkey also gets himself shot at by paramilitaries that night, but he is saved by Lee Cooper, a nurse-by-day, stripper-by-night. This paves the way for bad decision number two and the beginning of a domino effect in Starkeys life.

Bateman’s wit carries this: as thrillers go, Divorcing Jack is laugh-out-loud funny – in a dark and violent way.Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards.