World-renowned sculptor and hell-raiser Patsy Burke wakes up in a cheap hotel in Paris covered in blood and with a broken arm-and no idea what happened the night before. Thus begins a journey through the bars of Paris, during which Patsy, with the help of a few "friends," including Caravaggio and the Scandal Man, attempts to unravel the events of the previous day and night. Along the way, he relives the major occurrences of his past, most of which involve a combination of women, drink, and violence.
World-renowned sculptor and hell-raiser Patsy Burke wakes up in a cheap hotel in Paris covered in blood and with a broken arm-and no idea what happene...
The mutilated body of a young black woman is washed up on a remote beach in the west of Ireland. The search to find her killer takes Timothy O'Mahony far from his exile as a Garda sergeant in Bangor Erris into the corruption and machinations surrounding the election campaigns for the next President of France. With his prime suspects in the inner circle of Laurent Delahaye, the main opposition contender for the Presidency and womanising one-time leader of the Social Democratic party, O'Mahony finds that even senior French judges and policemen cannot always be relied upon to be impartial when a...
The mutilated body of a young black woman is washed up on a remote beach in the west of Ireland. The search to find her killer takes Timothy O'Mahony ...