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Two Days
A political operative in search of a Senator's wayward son. A vice-ridden tropical island. This case is way, way too much...
John Dannen is a mysterious and violent man, employed by a powerful Senator. The Senator's son is causing trouble and even worse, he's doing it on Tunnel Island, a neon hell-hole run by gambling conglomerates, organized crime and a corrupt police force. But the case is simple enough: hand-deliver a message, get out alive..
On Tunnel Island, Dannen quickly finds himself in conflict with a dangerous and weird collection of local residents. Out of his depth and desperate, he's forced to improvise, with bloody and unexpected results.
Two Days is the prequel to Drainland (Book 1) in a new series of noir crime mysteries. If you like hardboiled stories, gritty crime mysteries, and a dash of tropical paradise, then you'll love Iain Ryan's fast-paced page-turner.
John Dannen is a mysterious and violent man, employed by a powerful Senator. The Senator's son is causing trouble and even worse, he's doing it on Tunnel Island, a neon hell-hole run by gambling conglomerates, organized crime and a corrupt police force. But the case is simple enough: hand-deliver a message, get out alive..
On Tunnel Island, Dannen quickly finds himself in conflict with a dangerous and weird collection of local residents. Out of his depth and desperate, he's forced to improvise, with bloody and unexpected results.
Two Days is the prequel to Drainland (Book 1) in a new series of noir crime mysteries. If you like hardboiled stories, gritty crime mysteries, and a dash of tropical paradise, then you'll love Iain Ryan's fast-paced page-turner.
30 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 4, 2016
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About the author
Iain Ryan
15 books83 followersIain Ryan grew up in the outer suburbs of Brisbane, Australia. He predominantly writes in the hard-boiled/noir genre and his work has been previously published by Akashic Books Online, Crime Factory, Kill Your Darlings and Seizure.
His novella, Four Days, was published in November 2015 by small press Broken River Books (Portland, USA). The following year the book was shortlisted for the Australian Crime Writing Association’s Ned Kelly Awards (Best Debut Fiction). It didn’t win. Then Broken River Books folded, and the book fell out-of-print. On a roll, Ryan wrote and
self-published a trilogy of grimy romans durs, all set in the Queensland tropics: Drainland (2016), Harsh Recovery (2016), and Civil Twilight (2017).
Disillusioned with self-publishing, Ryan submitted the
manuscript for The Student to a single editor (Angela Meyer, an
acquaintance) and the book was published by Echo Publishing. In 2018, The Student was shortlisted for The Australian Crime Writing Association’s Ned Kelly Awards (Best Novel). In 2021, Echo Publishing and Bonnier Zaffre (UK) published Ryan’s third novel, The Spiral. Virtually no one liked it, except Ryan himself. In 2023, Ultimo Press published Ryan’s sixth novel The Strip. A QBD Book of the Month, The Strip is Ryan’s highest selling book to date and will be followed by sequel, The Dream (2024).
His novella, Four Days, was published in November 2015 by small press Broken River Books (Portland, USA). The following year the book was shortlisted for the Australian Crime Writing Association’s Ned Kelly Awards (Best Debut Fiction). It didn’t win. Then Broken River Books folded, and the book fell out-of-print. On a roll, Ryan wrote and
self-published a trilogy of grimy romans durs, all set in the Queensland tropics: Drainland (2016), Harsh Recovery (2016), and Civil Twilight (2017).
Disillusioned with self-publishing, Ryan submitted the
manuscript for The Student to a single editor (Angela Meyer, an
acquaintance) and the book was published by Echo Publishing. In 2018, The Student was shortlisted for The Australian Crime Writing Association’s Ned Kelly Awards (Best Novel). In 2021, Echo Publishing and Bonnier Zaffre (UK) published Ryan’s third novel, The Spiral. Virtually no one liked it, except Ryan himself. In 2023, Ultimo Press published Ryan’s sixth novel The Strip. A QBD Book of the Month, The Strip is Ryan’s highest selling book to date and will be followed by sequel, The Dream (2024).
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August 30, 2016
Current readers of TWO DAYS will be greatly relieved to know that DRAINLAND (Book 1) was released in early August 2016 because this novella is the prequel and it would be very unfair if we had to wait for the full show.
Iain Ryan does a particularly good job when it comes to noir set in unlikely places. He's also particularly good at action scenes, a constant level of menace and threat, creating good twisty plots, and putting it all together with a good sense of time, place and some engaging characters.
What more, after all, could the thriller reader want. There's politics, corruption, vice, tropical islands and a hand-delivered message from a heavy. This particular setting, the vice-ridden tropical island, creates a really interesting sort of a closed room scenario if you've got time to consider those sorts of things, what with the anti-hero character, John Dannen, busily trying to survive in a very weird world.
Everything in TWO DAYS indicates that DRAINLAND is going to be a hell of a read - and it's there, ready to go for anybody who gets hooked by this short, sharp and particularly engaging prequel.
https://www.austcrimefiction.org/revi...
Iain Ryan does a particularly good job when it comes to noir set in unlikely places. He's also particularly good at action scenes, a constant level of menace and threat, creating good twisty plots, and putting it all together with a good sense of time, place and some engaging characters.
What more, after all, could the thriller reader want. There's politics, corruption, vice, tropical islands and a hand-delivered message from a heavy. This particular setting, the vice-ridden tropical island, creates a really interesting sort of a closed room scenario if you've got time to consider those sorts of things, what with the anti-hero character, John Dannen, busily trying to survive in a very weird world.
Everything in TWO DAYS indicates that DRAINLAND is going to be a hell of a read - and it's there, ready to go for anybody who gets hooked by this short, sharp and particularly engaging prequel.
https://www.austcrimefiction.org/revi...
August 7, 2024
Two Days
Iain Ryan
Never quite figured out the plot here. Bad grammar and spelling didn’t help.
Iain Ryan
Never quite figured out the plot here. Bad grammar and spelling didn’t help.
August 2, 2016
Two Days by Iain Ryan was a great quick read. Two Days was about a political operative who is searching for a senator's son. John was sent to find the senator's son on Tunel Island, which has many weird residents. I thought this was a fun and quick book to read. I can't wait to read more by the author.
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