276°
Posted 20 hours ago

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

£9.9£99Clearance
ZTS2023's avatar
Shared by
ZTS2023
Joined in 2023
82
63

About this deal

Dan Starkey cares for himself and makes excuses for nobody; and that makes him a protagonist you can relate to. The narrator couldn't really do the american accent assigned to one of the characters but other than that did an ok job. So when David McGarry, the political ally of Brinn, who has secretly taped a confession of Brinn about his involvement in the Paradise Restaurant bombing when Brinn was drunk, tried to sell the tape, Coogan was interested. This article includes a list of general references, but it lacks sufficient corresponding inline citations.

But when his past catches up to his present, he's forced to take his unsuspecting family on the road trip of a lifetime. Divorcing Jack is the debut novel and first of the Dan Starkey series by Northern Irish author, Colin Bateman, released on 28 January 1995 through HarperCollins. 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. I generally liked the book and no small part of that comes from recognizing the small bars and larger political landscape of Belfast from the mid 90s.

Divorcing Jack is a Comedy film directed by David Caffrey and starring David Thewlis and Rachel Griffiths. In a review for Eye for Film, Angus Wolfe Murray wrote, "The film starts well and slowly loses credibility. Hard to credit it, really, but Thewlis hasn't had a lead role since his Cannes-conquering turn as the poetry-spouting and blisteringly nihilistic Johnny in Mike Leigh's Naked in 1993. I am already familiar with several flavors of noir : classic 1940's West Coast, East Coast, Florida camp, Scandinavian bleak, Scottish rumpus (Brookmyre).

Starkey also gets himself shot at by paramilitaries that night, but he is saved by Lee Cooper, a nurse-by-day, stripper-by-night.

Kane is no lawman, but he accepts the badge because he has an old score to settle with the town's chief trouble-maker.

Colin Bateman's first published book (and winner of the Betty Trask Prize) and first in the Dan Starkey series.

Frank reunites with old Joe, crazy Marvin and wily Victoria to uncover a massive conspiracy that threatens their lives. The film's messages about the horrors and idiocy of war and particularly the Irish civil war are familiar and would have been corny in a straight drama, but as in Catch-22 and other classic black comedies, the absurd humor of the film makes it powerful. A bold attempt at a comedy-thriller set in the near future in Belfast, this first feature from David Caffrey shows plenty of promise and chutzpah, but veers wildly in tone from sweet romantic comedy to bloody thriller and back again. Over the years, he also tried to get the other members of the cell who knew of his history killed or imprisoned by informing on them. In a weird moment of black comedy, he accidentally kills the victim’s mother when he collides violently with her on the stairs as he makes a getaway.

Asda Great Deal

Free UK shipping. 15 day free returns.
Community Updates
*So you can easily identify outgoing links on our site, we've marked them with an "*" symbol. Links on our site are monetised, but this never affects which deals get posted. Find more info in our FAQs and About Us page.
New Comment