Divorcing Jack

"If you can imagine a Dick Francis alter ego who lives in Northern Ireland and is a working-class newspaper hack, you've got an accurate picture of debut novelist Colin Bateman. Bateman's creation, an alcoholic columnist named Dan Starkey, gets in over his head when he steps out on his wife and the extramarital inamorata ends up dead...Starkey's rich cache of wit supplies 'Divorcing Jack' with its entertaining voice...It has torrid affairs, and cryptic phrases uttered with dying breath though the real attraction is the sharp voice and biting sarcasm of its hero."Bateman, Colin is the author of 'Divorcing Jack' with ISBN 9781559703598 and ISBN 1559703598.