by Eoin Colfer
Started well, but quickly descended into farce (and not the good kind). By two-thirds through I'd lost all interest.
This mature (read: expect lots of foul language, violence, and sex) action/suspense novel tells the story of Daniel, an Irish casino doorman who finds himself pulled into the dangerous urban underbelly while trying to avenge the killer of his sort-of girlfriend and the abduction of his best friend.I...
Colfer's first foray into the world of grown-ups and we start out in a Casino; there is a hostess, a bouncer and a tongue-on punter.Things are looking up!------------Later - see where I wrote about this being Colfer's entrance into the adult world, the trouble is he brought the whole puerile schoolb...
Eoin Colfer’s Plugged is a hilarious action-adventure novel about a man who is just trying to achieve justice on his friends’ behalf. At times a case of mistaken identity, at times an interesting glance into the shadier sides of the suburbs, Plugged seems to have enough of everything to appeal to a ...
A breezy, fast read without a single "50 cent word" in the book. I would almost say this is a hard boiled noir, certainly Colfer amasses a respectable body count, but despite Colfer's best efforts he is a nice guy and he had a hard time really convincing me that anything truly horrible was ever goin...
Bouncer Daniel McEvoy's life spins out of control when the girl he loves winds up dead, his friend turns up missing, thugs all over town are gunning for him, and his crazy neighbor may be in love with him. Worse yet, he's going bald...I heard Eoin Colfer speak at BoucherCon 2011 and he was so hilar...
This was my first book by Eoin Colfer. My daughter has read and loved all the Artemis Fowl books though, I've met the author at a book signing and liked him and his sense of humour and I am a fan of the crime genre, so this book seemed a save bet. And I wasn't wrong.This is a action packed book, but...
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