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  • Published: 2 June 2011
  • ISBN: 9781446484173
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 304

The Rage




Winner of the 2012 CWA Gold Dagger for Best Crime Novel, this is a gripping thriller set in credit-crunch Dublin, from the master of hardboiled Irish noir.

Winner of the 2012 Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger for Best Crime Novel

Vincent Naylor, a professional thief, is fresh out of jail. His latest project, an armed robbery, is just days away.

Bob Tidey, an honest, hardworking policeman, dedicated to public service, is about to commit perjury.

Maura Coady, a retired nun living in a Dublin backstreet, is lost in bad memories and regrets. Then, she sees something that she can't ignore, and makes a phone call that will unleash a storm of violence.

  • Published: 2 June 2011
  • ISBN: 9781446484173
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 304

About the author

Gene Kerrigan

Veteran journalist Gene Kerrigan is the author of four acclaimed novels, the most recent of which, The Rage, won the CWA Gold Dagger for Best Crime Novel of the Year.

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Praise for The Rage

The Rage is a gripping thriller written with such authority and authenticity that it almost feels like documentary. If you love crime fiction, you owe it to yourself to read Gene Kerrigan

Stuart Neville

A gritty, double-plotted procedural set against Ireland’s banking crisis

Christopher Fowler, Financial Times

A stunning novel. Here at last is the Irish Chandler. Naylor is a villain worthy of Elmore Leonard in his prime

Ken Bruen

Kerrigan's bruising depiction of Dublin's underbelly is wrought with hard-boiled lyricism

Metro

Pacy...cuts close to the bone

Irish Independent

What marks this book out is the page-turning combination of tension, threats of violence, strong writing and rattling pace

Russell James, Crimetime

Written in Kerrigan's trademark, sparse style, it rattles along the way all good crime fiction should

The Irish Independent