- Hardcover: 288 pages
- Publisher: Arcade Publishing (29 April 1996)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1559703490
- ISBN-13: 978-1559703499
- Product Dimensions: 21.1 x 15 x 2.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,361,058 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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A sequel to "Divorcing Jack", set in a mythical Northern Ireland town. Drunken journalist Miller is sent as a punishment from his Belfast newspaper to small-town Crossmaheart as a replacement for someone who has disappeared. Once there, he falls is love with the missing man's girlfriend.
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From the Back Cover
Bicycling journalist Miller is exiled from his big-city paper to small-town Crossmaheart. There, he is to replace another reporter, Jamie Milburn, who has disappeared – to no one's great surprise, since Crossmaheart is a notoriously fatal place in which to ask questions.
Miller aims to keep his head down, but as soon as he gets involved with Jamie's girlfriend Marie, that plan, and much else besides, begins to fall apart.
Darkly funny, romantic, disturbing and suspenseful, 'Cycle of Violence' is the brilliant new novel from the author of the bestselling 'Divorcing Jack'.
"An Ulster Carl Hiaasen"
MAIL ON SUNDAY
'Divorcing Jack:'
"A joy from start to finish…Witty, fast-paced and throbbing with menace, 'Divorcing Jack' reads like 'The Thirty-Nine Steps' rewritten for the '90s by Roddy Doyle"
TIME OUT
"Will do for Belfast and South Armagh what Bram Stoker did for Transylvania"
RTE GUIDE
"As sharp as a pint of snake-bite…manages to say more about the Troubles in 280 vivid pages than reams of earnest reportage ever could"
SUNDAY TIMES
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Bateman was a master of satirical humour and black comedy in his writing days at the County Down Spectator, giving readers the cover price enjoyment alone with his witty and unusual insight to local and parochial charachters in and around his fast moving journalistic lifestyle.
His books have a lasting grip which leaves you crying for more as he rips and strips his charachters bare, leaving the tears running down your cheeks.
Dan Starkey is without doubt the typical Belfast boy with a glint in his eye and he has hopped from novel to novel without becoming washed out.
If it says BATEMAN ON THE COVER - BUY IT!!!
His books have a lasting grip which leaves you crying for more as he rips and strips his charachters bare, leaving the tears running down your cheeks.
Dan Starkey is without doubt the typical Belfast boy with a glint in his eye and he has hopped from novel to novel without becoming washed out.
If it says BATEMAN ON THE COVER - BUY IT!!!
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This was the firt book Ive read by Bateman, what can really be said about it bar superb, the twists and turns in this book are unexpected and will keep you laughing and in ssense all the way thorugh the book.
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
l brought this book l was attracted by its bizzare cover, as it wasn't the usual type of book l would read, but l was going to stay with the family at christmas and was in a rush to find an escape. Well it certainly saved me from the family at xmas, l was in my own world curled up in the chair next to the fire. Colin Bateman style of writing was completly new to me, it constantly had me on edge. l then went on to read all his books after that, but cycle of violence will always be my favourite book, l have forced most of my friends to read it. lf you like a book with a twist and even a turn then it is the book for you, trust me you will be hooked the moment you pick it up.
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NOT AS GOOD AS DIVORCING JACK
This book came out after Divorcing Jack and I was expecting something special. Divorcing Jack was truly excellent but this is pretty ropey stuff. :(
Published 2 months ago by Vince W
so good it was stolen!
this book was so good that when our car was broken into the wretched thieves stole it!! good job we'd managed to finish it and just hope the thieves were literate enough to... Read more
Published 9 months ago by Hillyx
Early Bateman
Good fun, an early Bateman, but worth reading. He is now fully in his stride but it is nice to visit his roots.
Published 10 months ago by M. Jones
Very refreshing. Very black. Very funny
This book was a present, and it took me a few years to get around to reading it. The opening appealed to me as the lead feels orphaned at 28 when is Da dies. Read more
Published 19 months ago by SW
Laugh out loud! Bateman is a master of the blackest comedy
After reading the first couple of pages, I laughed so hard I followed through, but seeing as I was reading it on the toilet at the time, it wasn't so bad. Read more
Published on 7 April 2006 by Mike P
one of the funniest......
this book was the first bateman book I read and have to say one of the funniest books I had read.Having read most of his books,if you have a wicked sense of humour these books are... Read more
Published on 2 Dec 2004 by ANDREA A NELSON
Taken for a ride...
...albeit a rather enjoyable one! Fast paced, down to earth, wickedly written, in yer face, over the top humour with a fair few tear stifling moments chucked in for good measure. Read more
Published on 13 July 2000
Bateman cuts to the marrow with this one
I saw Divorcing Jack October,last. It was phenomenal, to understate it slightly. The natural progression was to buy a book of his, but my friend bought two so I am reading 'Cycle... Read more
Published on 4 May 1999
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