Danny Callaghan is fresh from prison, enjoying a drink in a quiet Dublin pub when two young thugs walk in. The guns come out and Danny intervenes, simultaneously saving the intended victim and insulting the kingpin of one of Dublin’s deadliest underworld outfits. Once the police decide to investigate, Danny has another grim decision to make: lying or acting as an honest witness. Either way he’s caught between corrupt officers of the law and a ruthless new gang culture. Dark Times in the City plays out its absorbing human drama in a society stumbling from giddy prosperity to a frightening economic collapse. Against the background of this brilliantly observed Ireland, Kerrigan tells his tough, graceful story of the cost of one man’s decency.

Gene Kerrigan
Gene Kerrigan is the author of The Midnight Choir and the CWA Gold Dagger Award-winning novel, The Rage. He lives in Dublin.

• Jan 26 2014
  The Star Tribune: "Kerrigan, in his fourth crime novel, paints a gritty, hard-on-its-luck Ireland and fills Dublin with memorable characters who would be right at home in Al Capone’s Chicago."
  
• Nov 13 2013
  Booklist (starred review): "Kerrigan manages to inject new vigor in the formula, not with any surprise plotting (there are no surprises in noir) but with the crispness and submerged power of his understated prose."
  
• Nov 11 2013
  Mary Whipple Reviews: "Kerrigan’s clean and precise prose style allows the action to move quickly and clearly, but at the same time he shows his characters’ love of nature and the world around them."
  
• Nov 5 2013
  The Boston Globe: "Kerrigan gives us ... neatly bounded dramatic scenes of Irish cops and robbers that leave us fearing that some of the dust and other detritus they stir up ... may very well end up splattering on our shoes."
  
• Nov 1 2013
  Kirkus: "[Dark Times in the City] captures a landscape of moral ambiguity with a crackling pace and terse, apt dialogue."
  
• Oct 12 2013
  Swiftly Tilting Planet: "A page-turner"