Sad Bastard
Pat Coyne is back. Injured in the line of duty, he is now out of work with too much time on his hands. Living alone, he's become more obsessive and volatile, developing a fetish for women's knickers. When a body washes up on the docks, the prime suspect is none other than the former Guarda's son, Jimmy. Like father like son, both Coynes are notorious for their sweeping spells of self-destruction. But while Pat's motives lean toward cleaning up the world's messes, Jimmy possesses a taste for mayhem. Coyne's estranged wife blames him, his mother-in-law berates him, and his therapist labels him psychotic. When a duo of criminal thugs try to kill his boy, Coyne decides that it's up to him to straighten things out.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1568582064
ISBN13:9781568582061
Release Date:September 2001
Publisher:Four Walls Eight Windows
Length:193 Pages
Weight:0.50 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 5.5" x 8.3"
Customer Reviews
1 rating
Not sad at all!
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 24 years ago
Hugo Hamilton writes with an excellent style. There's plenty of characters in this book, all of them fairly interesting and well-explained. The book reads well, and the overall arc of the plot is like several episodes of a soap-opera. My only complaint is that speech from characters wasn't quoted in quotation marks, it was hyphenated like this:-Well, that's a nice necklace you're wearing.But it was fairly funny in places. There's so much going on and it's all so original and well-detailed.Well done, Hugo.
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