Double glazing salesmen Alan Slater and Les Beale are out on the town, doing what they always do: getting hammered and losing money. It all kicks off when Beale trades aggro with some Chinese lads. As always, Alan's on hand to pick up the pieces....
With parole behind him and his PI business an unpleasant memory, Cal Innes is looking forward to continuing his job as caretaker at Paulo Lads' Club. But prodigal amateur boxer, Liam, needs someone to go with him to his first major tournament in Los ...
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-mo...
Cal Innes is back, in a "ferocious asskicker of a novel" (Daniel Woodrell, author of Winter's Bone), visiting the City of Angels for a boxing tournament that turns deadly. In this, the second Cal Innes novel, Cal is looking forward to continuing h...
The biggest race riot in Manchester's history and his brother's death have left PI Callum Innes a physical and emotional wreck. He's about to leave his newly established agency to partner Frank Collier when the word comes through that his erstwhile n...
It's the hottest summer on record in Manchester, England, and down-at-heel private eye Cal Innes is struggling to keep cool. He has taken a job evicting families on behalf of local slumlord Donald Plummer, while the English National Socialists bring ...
Double-glazing salesman Alan Slater is in trouble. He hasn't had a good sales lead in months. His wife rightly suspects him of playing around. His best mate Les Beale has turned into a bigoted, boozed-up headcase. And that's the least of it. When a r...
Sean Farrell - thief, petrol smuggler and all-round scoundrel - just got shafted by the love of his life. Nora ran off with twenty grand, a gram of coke, and his favourite leather jacket, leaving him with little more than a hangover and a Dido soundt...
An omnibus edition of all four of Ray Banks's highly acclaimed Cal Innes PI novels - Saturday's Child, Sucker Punch, No More Heroes, Beast of Burden - plus Dirty Work, an exlusive Cal Innes short story collection. From the introduction by Kevin Burto...
Graham Ellis is reliable, efficient, focused - the best pit boss Sovereign Casinos has, even if he does say so himself. But rumours of mental instability, along with the fallout of a particularly bloody night on the tables, relegate him to day shifts...
Thatcher's Britain. A boom time for entrepreneurs, patriots ... and vigilantes. Gateshead's notorious Derwent Hall estate. Crippled by unemployment, awash with drugs, and a no-go area for police and politicians alike. Three men - a taxi driver with p...