Mr Gary J Byrnes

Pure Mad: the First Charlie Doyle Novel Mr Gary J Byrnes

Nominated for a Crime Writers' Association award, Pure Mad has been described as the best Irish crime novel ever written. Meet Charlie Doyle. He's a jaded private detective in Limerick, Ireland who assumes that his latest adultery case is just more easy money. But when he learns that his client is one of the city's most-feared gangsters, he senses trouble, figures that things can't get much worse. His journey towards the truth accelerates into madness and terror as he stumbles across the trail of the most cunning killer who's ever stalked the city. How will Charlie react when faced with evil of unspeakable magnitude? Will he handle it? Or will he go Pure Mad? An edgy maelstrom of sex, drugs and murder. Not for the fainthearted. Pure Mad is a complex thriller that works on many levels. If you like a whodunnit, but 21st Century-style, you need to read this book. It's a page-turner that will keep you up all night and leave you breathless. Pure Mad also contains a map of modern Limerick, a glossary of Limerick slang and a bonus short story by Anton Chekhov, which is somehow connected to Pure Mad. Read it, work it out. Find out more at www.scribd.com/garyjbyrnes