'I stood back for a moment to take stock. John Blaine, Six Foot Two, 2201bs, light brown hair shaved close in a crew cut, grey eyes and an old hurling scar puckering one eyebrow into a quizzical expression ... ' He's short on paying customers, his...
When Maxie Morgan walks into Dublin private detective John Blaine's office on a sweltering July day, he brings with him unwelcome vibes from our hero's past. Morgan had been his best friend, but was also a conniving girl who stole, lied, and sold Bla...
Dublin private detective John Blaine feels he has enough on his hands, what with looking after his baby daughter, keeping tabs on the errant wife of a wealthy scrap metal dealer, and endeavoring to persuade a wandering man of the cloth to give up his...
Originally published in 1973, this winner of the Robert Pitman Prize for Fiction is now in paper. Vincent Banville's novel powerfully recreates the horror of the Biafran War in Nigeria as it involves Michael Painter, an Irishman teaching in a Catholi...
An Irish gumshoe gets in trouble again in this steamy short fiction that features gangs, pay-offs, immigration and a dose of greed. Private detective John Blaine is back treading Dublin's mean streets. With his marriage now on track, and a new baby t...