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Getting Out of Dodge: Peril 2
After nine years in maximum security prison for crimes against the state, Ger Mayes is on release. Free to try and recover the life he destroyed, free to rediscover love and normality.
"The worst criminal I have ever met," the judge stated at Ger's trial, and it wasn't a professional compliment. A decade of rubbing shoulders with Ireland's criminal elite hasn’t improved Ger's skills.
Two weeks after release Ger sits on a Dublin park bench, the uniformed authorities to his right, the gangsters with their bad trousers to his left, a blonde woman's fragrant head in a bag at his feet. He should have got the hell out of Dodge when DI Andy McAuliffe told him to. How has it come to this?
His wife is ex, his son estranged. The authorities have his number and so do the local criminal fraternity. A couple of choice decisions place Ger in the middle of a brothel turf war, and he decides to rescue somebody that he used to know. He chases his dreams but murder, kidnap and blackmail catch up with him. Fate hasn't had its fill of Ger but will his natural survival instinct win out again?
"The worst criminal I have ever met," the judge stated at Ger's trial, and it wasn't a professional compliment. A decade of rubbing shoulders with Ireland's criminal elite hasn’t improved Ger's skills.
Two weeks after release Ger sits on a Dublin park bench, the uniformed authorities to his right, the gangsters with their bad trousers to his left, a blonde woman's fragrant head in a bag at his feet. He should have got the hell out of Dodge when DI Andy McAuliffe told him to. How has it come to this?
His wife is ex, his son estranged. The authorities have his number and so do the local criminal fraternity. A couple of choice decisions place Ger in the middle of a brothel turf war, and he decides to rescue somebody that he used to know. He chases his dreams but murder, kidnap and blackmail catch up with him. Fate hasn't had its fill of Ger but will his natural survival instinct win out again?
330 pages, ebook
First published January 1, 2013
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Ruby Barnes
13 books91 followersI'm an author and a reader. I write dark thrillers - Peril, The Baptist, The Crucible - and read thrillers and literary fiction.
I've pedalled the pushbike of life until the chain fell off. Now living in rural Ireland where the natives are friendly and the weather atrocious, I write crime fiction and thrillers.
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I've pedalled the pushbike of life until the chain fell off. Now living in rural Ireland where the natives are friendly and the weather atrocious, I write crime fiction and thrillers.
Ruby's News is my mail list with freebies, pre-release info and other updates. As a welcome gift each new subscriber can choose a free e-copy of one of my books in their format of choice (epub, mobi, pdf). Go to my blog or http://eepurl.com/iNvvP to subscribe.
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June 14, 2013
Raise a glass to Ger! He's at it again!
Author Ruby Barnes has provided a great deal of fun, lots of laughs and not just a few near spills in his latest -- Getting Out of Dodge: Peril 2. His main character, Ger Mayes, brings us up to date, after an early release nine years into his prison sentence. He's older, but only a tiny bit wiser.
His little lad still makes most of the major decisions along the way and despite the jams he fell into into before, he settles into a new life in Kilkenny with almost exactly the same degree of denial. It seems that many of his life decisions are being made for him and not always to his own best interest. His choices of friends and business associates, lined up against a wall, would spell doom for anyone else, but not for Ger.
Ger remains one of my favorite characters in recent fiction, and at read's end, there is just enough carrot left dangling on the end of the stick (even a tiny bit of redemption), to keep me anxious for the next book. I can easily recommend this book for anyone who enjoys a tight-paced caper and has a sense of humor.
October 19, 2013
As good as the first! Is there a sequel?
This is Ruby Barnes’ sequel to Peril. At the end of Peril you aren’t quite sure what Ger’s future will be, but he’s such a bad guy you would be satisfied with anything bad. At the beginning of this book that – yes! – he’s been punished. You know he won’t ever redeem himself, but you can’t wait to see what happens to him this time. He picks up right where he left off. He’s still conceited and arrogant and insecure all at the same time. The pace moves right along; you can never anticipate what trouble Ger will be in next, but it will be humorous and a little poignant as well. Just when you think his behavior can’t get worse it does. You aren’t on his side, but you don’t want him to disappear.
At the end of this book, as in Peril, you aren’t quite sure what Ger’s future will be. Maybe there is a #3 in the series in the works, fingers crossed.
Great read! Would definitely recommend.
This is Ruby Barnes’ sequel to Peril. At the end of Peril you aren’t quite sure what Ger’s future will be, but he’s such a bad guy you would be satisfied with anything bad. At the beginning of this book that – yes! – he’s been punished. You know he won’t ever redeem himself, but you can’t wait to see what happens to him this time. He picks up right where he left off. He’s still conceited and arrogant and insecure all at the same time. The pace moves right along; you can never anticipate what trouble Ger will be in next, but it will be humorous and a little poignant as well. Just when you think his behavior can’t get worse it does. You aren’t on his side, but you don’t want him to disappear.
At the end of this book, as in Peril, you aren’t quite sure what Ger’s future will be. Maybe there is a #3 in the series in the works, fingers crossed.
Great read! Would definitely recommend.
July 7, 2013
Ger Mayes is just out of a 9 yr stint in prison...He may end up back in, unless he can figure out who's framing him for murder...Good Thriller/Mystery
May 29, 2022
I received this book as a first-reads giveaway.
I haven't read the first book about Ger Mayes, but I still found this one to be very entertaining.
Ger Mayes doesn't strike me as a mastermind, but he still manages through mostly dumb-luck to get out of the seemingly impossible situations that he ignorantly gets himself in to during the two weeks that the book takes place. Sometimes hilarious, sometimes just sad to think that there are people like Ger Mayes out there.
A solid 4 stars and a well recommended read.
I haven't read the first book about Ger Mayes, but I still found this one to be very entertaining.
Ger Mayes doesn't strike me as a mastermind, but he still manages through mostly dumb-luck to get out of the seemingly impossible situations that he ignorantly gets himself in to during the two weeks that the book takes place. Sometimes hilarious, sometimes just sad to think that there are people like Ger Mayes out there.
A solid 4 stars and a well recommended read.
June 26, 2013
A Cracking Read.
We first met Ger Mayes in Ruby Barnes' excellent previous novel, PERIL, where he appears as an engaging, feckless psychopath, whose loose morals and poor judgment get him into nothing but trouble. In GETTING OUT OF DODGE, Ger emerges from prison after serving nine years for committing Ireland's biggest drug heist. However, only Ger and the Romanians who put him there know that he was a patsy rather than a major gangland godfather. And now, led by stupidity and his dick, Ger sets out to be a patsy again. Unless he has finally learned some wisdom.
Ger returns to Kilkenny, unwittingly buys the house formerly owned by a notorious child molester, hitches his fortunes to a local firm of gangsters, has sex with unsuitable women, launders the proceeds of a bank robbery, brushes with the trade in trafficked women, and encounters once more the extremely dangerous Romanians. Nothing we know about Ger guarantees a happy outcome - only some thrills and laughs on the way there.
This a cracking read, written with pace, humour and economy. It is marked by Ruby Barnes trademarks: artful use of language, sharp characterisation, wit and a wonderful sense of place. His realisation of Kilkenny is a tour de force that is weirdly convincing in turning a provincial Irish town into the capital of the Mob and exposing the dark side of modern Ireland. Very highly recommended.
We first met Ger Mayes in Ruby Barnes' excellent previous novel, PERIL, where he appears as an engaging, feckless psychopath, whose loose morals and poor judgment get him into nothing but trouble. In GETTING OUT OF DODGE, Ger emerges from prison after serving nine years for committing Ireland's biggest drug heist. However, only Ger and the Romanians who put him there know that he was a patsy rather than a major gangland godfather. And now, led by stupidity and his dick, Ger sets out to be a patsy again. Unless he has finally learned some wisdom.
Ger returns to Kilkenny, unwittingly buys the house formerly owned by a notorious child molester, hitches his fortunes to a local firm of gangsters, has sex with unsuitable women, launders the proceeds of a bank robbery, brushes with the trade in trafficked women, and encounters once more the extremely dangerous Romanians. Nothing we know about Ger guarantees a happy outcome - only some thrills and laughs on the way there.
This a cracking read, written with pace, humour and economy. It is marked by Ruby Barnes trademarks: artful use of language, sharp characterisation, wit and a wonderful sense of place. His realisation of Kilkenny is a tour de force that is weirdly convincing in turning a provincial Irish town into the capital of the Mob and exposing the dark side of modern Ireland. Very highly recommended.
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