Divorcing Jack - Colin Bateman

I have started going back though my old book collection and reading some of them for a final time before they have to head off to the charity shop in town as the number of books I have is beginning to take over my house and I need the space for new books. Divorcing Jack was one of those books that looked familiar from the cover but when I read the back cover no bells started ringing and at 282 pages it looked ideal for a couple of afternoons reading in the sun. The Plot Dan Starkey is a Belfast journalist and he fits very nicely into a familiar stereotype of being a hard drinking hack with a sarcastic tongue even though e has not yet ...

Divorcing Jack is the first book to introduce us to Dan Starkey, Belfast journalist and jack the lad, who has a rather dangerous habit of getting involved in sticky situations involving some of Northern Ireland’s less savoury paramilitaries. Recently I bought Shooting Sean, the latest book in the series, and enjoyed it so much that I had to go back to the start to find out what happened at the start. You might have seen the film – I haven’t, so I can’t comment on how similar or different this book is to the film. The book is more centred on Belfast and Northern Ireland than Shooting Sean, which took in Amsterdam and Cannes as well. Like I ...