Hennessy Books In Order
- Hennessy (1990)
- Hennessy Goes West (1992)
- Hennessy in Africa (1992)
- Hennessy Points the Way (1993)
- Hennessy to the Rescue (1995)
John Blaine Mystery Books In Order
- Death By Design (1993)
- Death the Pale Rider (1995)
- Cannon Law (2001)
Novels
- An End to Flight (1973)
Omnibus
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Vincent Banville Books Overview
Cannon Law
Dublin private detective John Blaine feels he has enough on his hands, what with looking after his baby daughter, keeping tabs on the errant wife of a wealthy scrap metal dealer, and endeavoring to persuade a wandering man of the cloth to give up his dirty habits. Then a double murder takes place, a bishop pas*ses away in a bizarre manner, and the nymphet Angel Rose enters his life and all in the week that Wexford has yet again been beaten in the All Ireland hurling final. Blaine is forced to duck and dive through the mean streets of a heat wave gripped Dublin, trying to preserve life and limb. In a violent climax in a junk yard, Blaine is forced to rely on unlikely allies to save him from a bloody end, and to reflect upon the true nature and meaning of his life’s calling.
An End to Flight
Originally published in 1973, this winner of the Robert Pitman Prize for Fiction is now in paper. Vincent Banville’s novel powerfully recreates the horror of the Biafran War in Nigeria as it involves Michael Painter, an Irishman teaching in a Catholic Mission School, who stays behind to make a gesture against his own mental paralysis.
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