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Empire State
Colin Bateman
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Description for Empire State
Paperback. EMPIRE STATE is a vintage Bateman adventure: wild, romantic and darkly, dangerously funny. Num Pages: 608 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 37. Weight in Grams: 444.
Nathan Jones - scarred for life by one night of horror in his Northern Irish past. And also by having the same name as a Supremes song.
Hoping for a fresh start, Nathan moves to New York but when his girlfriend leaves him,
he only has his new job for company - that of a security guard at the Empire State building. Recently acquired by a computer billionaire, the building is about to be visited by President Michael Keneally, an army of FBI men, and George Burley of Alabama, a white supremacist with the President at the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Headline Publishing Group United Kingdom
Number of pages
608
Condition
New
Number of Pages
608
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781472201270
SKU
V9781472201270
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-10
About Colin Bateman
Bateman was a journalist in Northern Ireland before becoming a full-time writer. His first novel, DIVORCING JACK, won the Betty Trask Prize, and all his novels have been critically acclaimed. He wrote the screenplays for the feature films DIVORCING JACK and WILD ABOUT HARRY and the popular TV series MURPHY`S LAW starring James Nesbitt. Bateman lives in Ireland with his ... Read more
Reviews for Empire State
'Bateman on epic form in gloriously over-the-top saga'
Daily Telegraph
'A hugely enjoyable novel...blessed with a beautiful sense of irony...it's like Carl Hiaasen, Tom Wolfe, and Roddy Doyle at their best'
Herald
Daily Telegraph
'A hugely enjoyable novel...blessed with a beautiful sense of irony...it's like Carl Hiaasen, Tom Wolfe, and Roddy Doyle at their best'
Herald