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Vicious Circle
Amanda Harrington is a Dublin prostitute, a dominatrix, working from a rented apartment with her friend Marna Galloway. She sees herself as a survivor, having left behind the brutal world of pimps. Paul McCracken is the owner of Dublin's top escort agencies. A violent lowlife who terrorizes women, it takes a brave person to cross him—and Amanda knows she's committed the cardinal sin. Then a prostitute is discovered, brutally murdered. More murders follow. A serial killer is on the loose, and the police have reason to believe that Amanda is on the hit list. A riveting thriller that brings Dublin's underworld to life in all its raw and chilling detail.
534 pages, Paperback
First published March 1, 2004
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December 28, 2011
In this crime novel set in Dublin, Ireland, Arlene Hunt shows the violent underbelly of the vice world. If the girls were just left to themselves, they would be able to live quite an easy life, but they are surrounded by violent men who want to take their money away from them.
A vicious pimp, Paul McCracken, uses every sort of extortion and physical violence to keep Irish prostitutes under his control, while strategically replacing them with girls from Eastern Europe and Algeria. But woe betide any Irish girl who decides to break away from him and go it alone. A psychopathic and very sick killer decides to target prostitutes working by themselves. The Dublin police force finds itself trying to collar McCracken, find the serial killer and calm dissension in its own ranks.
This novel is set a time when the Irish establishment panders to its national media by deciding to crack down on prostitution, by raiding brothels and fining their "madames". A question implicit throughout the novel is whether the "cure", administered by the police and the courts, leads to a situation worse than the "crime" of prostitution.
The writing is very assured and the plot springs one surprise after another. A real page turner.
A vicious pimp, Paul McCracken, uses every sort of extortion and physical violence to keep Irish prostitutes under his control, while strategically replacing them with girls from Eastern Europe and Algeria. But woe betide any Irish girl who decides to break away from him and go it alone. A psychopathic and very sick killer decides to target prostitutes working by themselves. The Dublin police force finds itself trying to collar McCracken, find the serial killer and calm dissension in its own ranks.
This novel is set a time when the Irish establishment panders to its national media by deciding to crack down on prostitution, by raiding brothels and fining their "madames". A question implicit throughout the novel is whether the "cure", administered by the police and the courts, leads to a situation worse than the "crime" of prostitution.
The writing is very assured and the plot springs one surprise after another. A real page turner.
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