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Here is the future of the thriller and it's called PAT MULLAN. Glory be indeed!
-Ken Bruen, 2004 SHAMUS Award winner
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"Pat Mullan shocks us into paying attention from word one, page one and does not let us go until he decides to release us! That is how compelling BLOOD RED SQUARE reads! Like a dynamo running ahead of itself."
- novelist Robert W. Walker, The Instinct and Edge Series
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Dublin Noir features an awe-inspiring cast of writers who between them have won all major mystery and crime-fiction awards. Brand new stories by: Ken Bruen, Eoin Colfer, Pat Mullan, and others.
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JAMES DICKEY'S POETRY: The Religious Dimension (Kindle Edition) James Dickey, a poet who raised my consciousness at a time when I was not writing any more, a time when I had abandoned it, a time when the muse had departed. Well, James Dickey has now departed. He died on January 19, 1997. I suppose he was best known for his novel Deliverance but he also wrote about 20 volumes of poetry. James Dickey?s Poetry: The Religious Dimension is my elegy to the man.
ELEVEN DAYS IN JULY : A Family Ordeal Eleven harrowing days in the life of my son who is a hemophiliac, a Von Willebrand
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Dr. Dan Grimes was the most sought after computer scientist on the planet. Bill Gates had tried, unsuccessfully, to buy his mind with millions. But wealth didn't motivate Grimes. A minimalist in everything, he lived frugally. Artificial intelligence alone motivated him. He wanted to take AI the next quantum leap. He wanted to train the computer to think, to create, to solve, to function more magnificently than a thousand Einsteins. MIT believed in him. They'd funded him now for ten years. Asked for nothing. No objectives. No project milestones. Nothing. MIT believed. Believed that Grimes's genius would eventually repay them beyond the wildest dreams of even the most far-out thinkers in their renowned research department.
Under the Bougainvillea
The bougainvillea had started to flower again, a deep fuchsia color. It climbed the wall of their patio until it reached the second floor where it clambered around the metal railings on their bedroom window.
Idyllic. That’s the way it was supposed to be. Or that’s the way she pretended it would be. Here they could forget the past and start over again. But that had been wishful thinking. They couldn’t leave the past behind. It was part of them. Where they went, it went too.
Pat Mullan is Chair of ITW Ireland - International Thriller Writers : The First Organization for Professional Thriller Writers. If you're an Irish writer of thrillers, of any genre, Pat invites you to join ITW IRELAND. It's free! (And what can you get free any more?). Drop into ITW, visit him, browse the website, and he is certain you will be impressed. So - what are you waiting for - go now (and come back and see me again and leave me your thoughts in an email here):
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"Pull up a chair and stay a while. I write thrillers and poetry. Perfectly compatible genres, in case you wondered. Poetry hones the mind and the skill, as well as providing a respite from the intense commitment I make when I'm in the midst of a thriller.
Please spend some time with me. I'm sure you'll find something to interest you in my place here in cyberspace. Sign my guestbook and leave me a message before you go. Do come back often. Thank you!"
I'll jump right in by showing you some of the reviews that I've been receiving for my first novel, The CIRCLE of SODOM.
"An excellent read! " - Shelley Glodowski, MIDWEST BOOK REVIEW
Part Tom Clancy, part Michael Crichton, The CIRCLE of SODOM by Pat Mullan provides an entertaining and thrilling read of the first order ... the chilling suspense will keep you restless !!! Mullan is ready with another MacDara thriller, BLOOD RED SQUARE. I have already booked my copy!! "Recommended, highly recommended !!!" - Narayan Radhakrishnan, NEW MYSTERY READER
"You know you're reading a good thriller when you start to cast it for the movie before you've even finished." - Eithne Hannigan, Book Reviews, CONNEMARA LIFE magazine
"a rollicking ride...a great new book in the thriller genre!" Peggy Vincent, author of Baby Catcher - film rights have been optioned by Elliot Gould's production studio and the screenplay has been assigned |
And here are some of the most recent reviews that I’ve been getting for my latest thriller, LAST DAYS OF THE TIGER, (you can read the opening chapter- titled 'Tribunal' - in the anthology DUBLIN NOIR, out now in the US from Akashic Books, and in the UK and Ireland from Brandon Books):
“Pat Mullan’s latest, LAST DAYS OF THE TIGER, is a razor blade down the spine. So fast-paced, expect whiplash. This is Irish noir with a hero whom you’ll want at your back in any gunfight. Grab a copy and clear your schedule!” James Rollins, New York Times bestselling author of BLACK ORDER.
"A high-powered legal thriller chocked full of betrayal, deceit, corruption, and murder. Mullan is Ireland's answer to John Grisham, with a smattering of Ross MacDonald thrown in. LAST DAYS OF THE TIGER will make your head spin." JA Konrath, author of RUSTY NAIL.
“Pat Mullan is a natural born storyteller with a gripping, engaging style. He may just be the next big thing in Irish crime fiction.” Jason Starr, author of LIGHTS OUT.
“LAST DAYS OF THE TIGER bristles with ingenuity, and a plot to kill for … this is a thriller of such high caliber that it transcends all genres … has all the Irish gifts: dizzy narrative, sly humor, and marvelous readability. It rocks! Ken Bruen, Edgar and Macavity Award winning author of THE GUARDS.
“LAST DAYS OF THE TIGER is a tight, intelligent thriller. Author Pat Mullan blends political intrigue and murder with a unique Irish flavor that goes down smooth. His hero, Ed Burke, is striking – almost an anti-hero in some respects. To unravel the deception and save himself, Burke must test old friendships, and determine who to trust in an Ireland changed by the Celtic Tiger. Mullan writes suspense with an edge reminiscent of Bob Ludlum. An author to watch.” Cerri Ellis, Mostly Mystery Reviews.
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Praise for Pat Mullan's CREATURES OF HABIT
“Creatures of Habit, the shimmer of evil…”
“There are shades of Chesterton, Dorothy L. Sayers, and even Tom Clancy in Creatures of Habit, Pat Mullan’s powerful new novel. Set mainly in “Celtic Tiger” Ireland, the punning title displays the shimmer of evil that the novel’s hero, the all-too-human Ed Burke, senses throughout. Pederasty, madness, and murder abide in this complex and fascinating story; a story stolen by humanity’s seemingly bottomless capacity for corruption. Ed Burke is just the man to smoke it out.
This is certainly one of the most exciting, and powerful, thrillers I’ve ever read—the complex art of the thinker’s mystery. Great stuff!” E. M. Schorb
E.M.Schorb, award winning author and poet: winner of The Frankfurt Grand Prize in fiction for his novel, Paradise Square; 1973 International Keats Poetry Prize; Verna Emery Poetry Prize for Murderer's Day, his fourth collection of poetry (Purdue University Press). E. M. Schorb’s new novel, Fortune Island, is slated for publication in May/June 2009.
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World rights to LAST DAYS OF THE TIGER and CREATURES OF HABIT are available from my agent, Svetlana Pironko, at AUTHOR RIGHTS AGENCY: www.authorrightsagency.com |
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