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Peril: A Ger Mayes Crime Novel [Kindle Edition]

Ruby Barnes
4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (37 customer reviews)

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Book Description

His choices. Their lives. A moment of madness.

Ger Mayes is a slacker. A consumer. He thinks life owes him, takes what he can and goes with the flow. His perspective on life, like that of another famous slacker The Big Lebowski, is sometimes humorous, but the story takes a noir turn when Ger kills a mugger and is held to account for it. All things move toward their end, of that you can be sure.


Contemporary Irish crime fiction set in Dublin and Kilkenny, Peril is the story of an anti-hero. Men want to be him, women want to redeem him. Ger's story is fiction, but his origins are real - everyday folk living and working in a Dublin city center wracked with organized begging, drug addicts and violent crime. It's not all leprechauns and shillelaghs in Ireland.

Ladies, don't let your man read this book. You don't want him getting ideas.


Fellas, keep your copy well hidden.


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From the Author

The sequel to Peril will be released in mid-2013.

About the Author

Ruby Barnes is the author of Peril, The Baptist, The Crucible and The New Author.

Product Details

  • File Size: 471 KB
  • Print Length: 368 pages
  • Publisher: Marble City Publishing (March 25, 2011)
  • Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B004TXOOHO
  • Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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  • Lending: Enabled
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #521,351 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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My goodness, I enjoyed this book. Antoinette Lee  |  8 reviewers made a similar statement
This is a good read, suspenseful, funny, tragic, and finally just. Jersey Exile  |  5 reviewers made a similar statement
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21 of 21 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Wanting to Punch Ger in the... September 23, 2011
Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase
I've read many reviews of this book that talk about how likeable the main character is...how one finds oneself pulling for him despite all his flaws, etc. If I'm honest, I wanted to punch the main character in the face. Repeatedly. I wished him nothing but suffering and his comeuppance, and I nearly threw my Kindle across the room each time he didn't receive it. At times likes this I would exclaim (sadly, out loud), "I can't believe he's going to get away with this, as well!" All those scenes centreing around trains and he couldn't have been hit by one?!

It takes a special kind of writer to provoke such a visceral reaction to a fictional character. Ruby Barnes is a member of this very exclusive club. I loved the dark humour running throughout the novel, I loved the vivid sense of environment, I loved the ending and I loved that I wanted to buy a plane ticket to Dublin just to hunt down Ger--again, a fictional character--and kick him soundly in the bullocks. My only complaint, if it can even be labelled as such, is not to call it "a quirky crime novel." I think people will figure this out, much to their pleasure. I look forward to this becoming a series. Well done!
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars A very enjoyable read. April 13, 2011
By Irene
Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase
If you're looking for an everyone lives happily ever after tale, keep on looking, you won't find it here. The world seems to be crashing down around Ger in this witty, well written, engaging story. Even though much of Ger's "peril" is due to his own lack of self control I couldn't help but feel sorry for him as he dug himself in deeper and deeper from one bad situation to the next. A very enjoyable read.
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Urban Noir October 15, 2011
Format:Kindle Edition
This is phenomenal writing. The author has an absolute knack for sketching out characters and pulling the reader into their lives and motivations. As a result the reader finds themselves sympathising with situations and decisions that they normally wouldn't.

I'll admit to varying between 4 & 5 stars on this one, because I've never met a character I disliked so much (Bella from Twilight doesn't come close). The main character in this book, Ger, made me want to reach through the pages and slap him, repeatedly - probably because I've had the misfortune to date similar types in my own life.

My normal response to a character I completely dislike is to close the book. However, Ruby Barnes has a knack for keeping you reading simply with the quality of his writing, and for me, the other characters in the book had me hooked.

A fine look at what people will - and won't - do in extraordinary circumstances, and a great study of living, working and dying in a gritty urban world. For me, the writing trumped the flaws in Ger, who seems to suffer from TSTL (too stupid to live)syndrome and an ego that could sink the Titanic all over again.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
4.0 out of 5 stars Different, in a good way
Barnes breaks 3 rules that usually make or break a book for me, and he still won me over. The protagonist is unlikable. It's written in the present tense. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Ginney Etherton
5.0 out of 5 stars Tense, suspenseful read
Disclosure: I know author Ruby Barnes, but this is an unsolicited review.

Peril is the fast-paced story of a philandering jerk who avoids hard work, thinks with his... Read more
Published 5 months ago by Matthew Posner
4.0 out of 5 stars A Cheerful Eedjit, To The End!
I have always been attracted to character-driven stories, so Ruby Barnes' writing has always found me a receptive reader. Read more
Published 5 months ago by Richard Sutton
5.0 out of 5 stars Top-rate dark humor
I was surprised I liked this as much as I did; I don't always enjoy darker stuff. But this was hilarious. Read more
Published 6 months ago by booklover
3.0 out of 5 stars Shifty and shady
The main character of this story by Ruby Barnes leaves one with a bad taste in the mouth. The man is entirely self-centered; yes, more so than most people. Read more
Published 6 months ago by Love to Read
4.0 out of 5 stars Great premise and execution
Ruby Barnes does a great job with Peril. He pulls off the almost impossible task of getting the reader to cheer on a protagonist who is an utterly despicable character. Read more
Published 7 months ago by Robert P. French
5.0 out of 5 stars The Perils of being an Anti-Hero
From the cover, not what I expected. After the initial murder scene, a little slow...
In theory I shouldn't have liked this book quite so much, but I thoroughly enjoyed it on... Read more
Published 8 months ago by Jan Ruth
4.0 out of 5 stars A darned good read
Gerard (call me Ger) Mayes fancies himself with the ladies; in fact he embarks upon an affair with his wife's best friend. Read more
Published 9 months ago by Ignite
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Star masterpiece
Ruby Barnes's novel "Peril," is a good book. My goodness, I enjoyed this book. It had it all, drama, mystery, love gone bad, crime, etc. Read more
Published 11 months ago by Antoinette Lee
4.0 out of 5 stars A series of definite unfortunate events
This entire book played out like a film noire in my head, for some reason. It starts in medias res, then slowly develops it's characters and plot before going headstrong into the... Read more
Published 11 months ago by dnae
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More About the Author

I've pedalled the pushbike of life until the chain fell off. Now living in rural Ireland where the natives are friendly and the weather atrocious, I write crime fiction and thrillers.

My writing is dedicated to the memory of my late Scottish grandfather Robert 'Ruby' Barnes.

Contact me on ruby dot barnes at marblecitypublishing dot com

Browse my blog at www.rubybarnes.blogspot.com

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