Pure Mad: The First Charlie Doyle Novel

By Gary J. Byrnes

Meet Charlie Doyle. A jaded private detective in Limerick, Ireland, a city shaped by old scars and new money. Charlie assumes his latest adultery case is just another easy payday. All he has to do is spy on a gangster's wife and confirm whether she is doing the dirt. Simple. Quick. No surprises.

Then he realises who her husband is. One of Limerick's maddest gangsters, a man with a long memory, a short fuse and friends who deal in cocaine and favours. By the time Charlie understands the danger, it is already too late to walk away.

What begins as a routine job twists into something far darker. Charlie uncovers threads of corruption that lead from backstreet bars to the city's industrial ghosts, and into the orbit of Russian mobsters who have quietly carved out a place in the underworld. Worse still, he stumbles onto the trail of a killer unlike anyone the city has ever known, a predator who moves through the chaos with cold precision.

As the bodies mount, Charlie is forced into a battle with the city itself and the darkness inside the people who live there. The truth is closing in. The terror is real. And the question becomes simple. When Charlie finally faces the evil at the heart of it all, will he handle it or will he go pure mad?

An edgy maelstrom of sex, drugs and murder. Not for the fainthearted.
Nominated for the Crime Writers' Association Debut Dagger Award.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1448615259
• ISBN13: 9781448615254
• Release Date: June 2009
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.3" x 8.0"