The Rage - Couverture souple

Vincent Naylor is a professional thief, as confident as he is reckless. Just ten days out of jail, and he's preparing his next robbery. Already, his plan is unravelling.

While investigating the murder of a crooked banker, Detective Sergeant Bob Tidey gets a call from an old acquaintance, Maura Coady. The retired nun believes there's something suspicious happening in the Dublin backstreet where she lives alone.

Maura's call inadvertently unleashes a storm of violence that will engulf Vincent Naylor and force Tidey to make a deadly choice.

The Rage is a masterpiece of suspense, told against the background of a country's shameful past and its troubled present.

Veteran journalist Gene Kerrigan is the author of four novels, the most recent of which, Dark Times in the City, won the Irish Crime Fiction Book of the Year and was shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger.

'Gene Kerrigan is a great writer' Roddy Doyle

'Gene Kerrigan's writing is magnificent. It is graceful, tough, hardboiled and tender, razor-sharp and gritty as it is lyrical and truthful' Joseph O'Connor

Praise for Dark Times in the City:

'Muscular writing, a smart line in self-deprecating humour, terrific dialogue and an engrossing portrayal of the sights and sounds of Dublin Noir' Mo Hayder, The Times

'Cruelling authentic... a very fine crime novel' Sunday Independent

'Brilliant...unbearably tense...stomach-churningly frightening' Observer

'Exhilarating... pacy, suspenseful...opens with a bang' Sunday Times