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Putting the Boot In

Putting the Boot In

by Dan Kavanagh

Publisher Jonathan Cape

Genre: Crime

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    Very good copy. Bumped bottom corners. In an unclipped dust jacket with some spotting to front flap. Yellow pages throughout.

About the book

Wickedly funny, this is the third novel in the elusive Dan Kavanagh's London-based crime series featuring bisexual private detective Duffy.

Things are hotting up in the Third Division and it seems someone's nobbling players. Following the loss of one of his best strikers, Jimmy Lister, former England player and now ineffectual club manager, calls on the expertise of the inimitable Duffy.

Duffy must investigate the troubled world of lower-league football while also facing questions of his possible encounter with AIDS, whether he's cooked his frozen pizza for too long and whether he's too short to be a decent goalkeeper.

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About the Author

Dan Kavanagh

Dan Kavanagh was born in County Sligo, Ireland, in 1946.


He has been an entertainment officer on a Japanese supertanker, a waiter on roller skates at a drive-in eatery in Tucson, and a bouncer in a gay bar in San Francisco.


He lives in Islington, North London.

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