Headbanger/Sad Bastard: noeXit2 Ace Double

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In Headbanger, Dublin cop Pat Coyne decides to take on the city's most notorious gang leader, resulting in a personal feud with the underworld. In Sad Bastard, Coyne is back, out of work after an injury. But when his own son becomes a suspect in a murder case, he finds himself meddling in the Dublin underworld once again. Two brilliant, funny and unpredictable crime stories from a master of the genre.

Starting out as a journalist, Hugo Hamilton went on to write short stories and novels. He is now the author of six novels, two memoirs and a collection of short stories. His work has won a number of international awards, including the 1992 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, the 2003 French Prix Femina Etranger, the 2004 Italian Premio Giuseppe Berto and a DAAD scholarship in Berlin. He has also worked as a writer-in-residence at Trinity College, Dublin. Hamilton was born and lives in Dublin.

Hamilton is a great international writer who just happens to be Irish -- Anne Enright Hugo Hamilton brings an earthy, dark giddiness to this twofer featuring a pair of his most beloved novels -- Kevin Burton Smith * Mystery Scene * [In Headbanger] Hamilton turns the collapse of the hero's world into a nail-biting finish -- Edward McBride * Times Literary Supplement * Coyne is a majestic creation... If Flann O'Brien's lunatic Professor De Selby had genetically engineered a cross between the novels of Raymond Chandler and those of Patrick McCabe, this is what the progeny might well have looked like -- Antonia Logue * Times * [In Sad Bastard] Hamilton's style is an engaging mix of the salty and literary, and he has fun with the cartoonish tropes of pulp fiction, but the predictable mystery comes a distant second to his vivid characters -- Sia Michel * New York Times *