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The Dark Place: A Karl Kane Novel
Author(s): Sam Millar (Author)
- Publisher: Brandon
- Publication Date: 3 Feb. 2009
- Language: English
- Print length: 256 pages
- ISBN-10: 0863224032
- ISBN-13: 9780863224034
Book Description
The perpetrator is cunning, wealthy and influential. More importantly, he has never once made a mistake in his grisly calling – until now. By abducting Katie, the young daughter of legendary private investigator, Karl Kane, the killer has just made his first mistake, which could well turn out to be his last.
Blaming himself for his daughter’s abduction, Karl Kane must now reach down to the darkest recesses of his troubled soul and mind, to become as cunning and merciless as the killer – but even that may not be enough to penetrate the fortress-like lair where Karl suspects the killer keeps his victims. There is only one man capable of helping Kane attack the ‘dark place’, a man despised and hated by Detective Inspector Mark Wilson, but even that help becomes as elusive as any Karl will get from the cops.
From the nail-biting beginning to the explosive ending, Karl Kane’s nightmarish journey forces upon him a decision that changes his life forever, and forces him to look into the abyss of no return.
Editorial Reviews
Review
Sam Millar is a fascinating guy. One of Ireland’s top crime writers, his own past is as gripping as any of his novels. Millar’s electrifying memoir, On the Brinks, tells the true story of one of the most audacious robberies in American history. His visceral language, combined with the dark humour of protagonist Karl Kane, make for powerful writing. New tome `The Dark Place’ tells the story of an elusive serial killer, prowling the Belfast streets and abducting young, homeless women. An addictive page-turner, like Millar’s past work, this is not a book to read alone if you suffer from a nervous disposition –Irish World, September 2009
Millar is possibly unique among crime writers, that I know of, and the real world that he experiences. There is a ring of authenticity about the world he depicts and the tone he exudes, which is hard to knock, for very few of us can boast such a past. His writing is very, very dark, and reminds me a lot of Andrew Vachss and the Burke novels. The Dark Place is at the intense end of hard-boiled…a thrilling novel, very well structured, very powerful. –Declan Hughes, best-selling and award-winning crime writer. RTE 1 Arena, September 2009
About the Author
Sam Millar is a bestselling crime writer and playwright from Belfast, Northern Ireland. He has won numerous literary awards and his books have all been critically praised.
His incredible life was explored in RTE’s Documentary on One in August 2020: The Seven Million Dollar Man.
