# Nine Inches

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- Book: [Nine Inches](https://www.bookquiver.com/colin-bateman/nine-inches) ([Nine Inches.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/colin-bateman/nine-inches.md))
- Authors: [Colin Bateman](https://www.bookquiver.com/colin-bateman)
- Publisher: headline
- ISBN: 978-07-5537-865-4
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2012-05-10
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Dan Starkey, the ducking and diving hapless investigator, takes centre stage again in this brilliant new novel by the master of comic crime. Radio shock-jock and self-styled people's champion Jack Caramac is used to courting controversy - but when his four-year-old son is kidnapped for just one hour, and then sent back with a warning note, he knows he may have finally gone too far. Jack has no choice but to turn to Dan Starkey for help. Recently chucked by his long-suffering wife Patricia, Dan has finally given up on journalism and is now providing a boutique, bespoke service for important people with difficult problems. Dan resolves to catch whoever kidnapped Jack's son - and very soon finds himself in the middle of a violent feud between rival drug gangs, pursued by jealous husbands, unscrupulous property developers and vicious killers as the case spirals ever more out of his control...