Saturday's Child (Cal Innes) - Hardcover

RAY BANKS went to university for two years before he dropped out. After that, he spent his time as a double-glazing salesman, croupier, and dole monkey. Author of The Big Blind, he was born in Kirkcaldy, Scotland, and now lives in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England.

"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

ADVANCE PRAISE FOR SATURDAY S CHILD

"Saturday's Child is fascinating, fresh, and darkly funny."?Thomas Perry, bestselling author of Silence

"One of the finest P.I. novels of the year . . . The future of U.K. detective fiction is Ray Banks."?Jason Starr, author of The Follower

"A savage hardboiled spanking, Saturday s Child will leave you begging for more."?Victor Gischler, author of Shotgun Opera

"Banks takes the Brit noir thriller format and gives it a damn good and much deserved kicking."?Martyn Waites, author of The Mercy Seat

"Ray Banks steps up into the majors . . . I d love to read what tops this."?Ken Bruen, Shamus-winning author of The Guards

"Banks mixes sharp humor with crackling dialogue in a wild ride across the pond. Saturday s Child is a page turner, start to finish."?Charlie Stella, author of Mafiya: A Novel of Crime

"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-winning The 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.