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Little Criminals

Gene Kerrigan author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Vintage Publishing

Published:5th May '05

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Strikingly sharp and thrillingly violent, Little Criminals is the celebrated debut of the doyen of Dublin crime and winner of the Gold Dagger 2012.

Justin and Angela Kennedy have money, love, children and a limitless future. Into their lives come Frankie Crowe, an ambitious criminal tired of risking his life for small change. Kidnap could be the first step on his climb to a better life, and he knows just the kind of dangerous men to make it happen...Justin and Angela Kennedy have money, love, children and a limitless future. Jo-Jo Mackendrick is a pillar of Dublin gangland society; a man determined that nothing will endanger his hard-earned supremacy. Into their lives come Frankie Crowe, an ambitious criminal tired of risking his life for small change. Kidnap could be the first step on his climb to a better life, and he knows just the kind of dangerous men to make it happen...

A savage x-ray picture of contemporary Ireland... beautifully etched characters * Guardian *
this is a terrific novel, tense and exciting. I spun through it quicker than it takes to tell * Independent on Sunday *
A great writer, a great story, relentless and brilliant -- Roddy Doyle
He writes with a light touch that makes his darker final chapters all the more disturbing * Daily Telegraph *

ISBN: 9780099481492

Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 21mm

Weight: 235g

336 pages