Author:Ken Bruen,David John
When Mitchell is released from prison after serving three years for a vicious attack he doesn't remember, he reluctantly finds himself caught up with Robert Gant, a ruthless lowlife with violent plans.
Attempting to stay out of Gant's way, Mitchell finds work as a handyman at the mansion of a faded movie actress. When she eagerly plies him with cash, cars and sex, Mitch starts to wonder if even this job comes with a catch.
But it isn't long before Mitchell's violent past catches up with him. When people close to him start getting hurt, Mitchell is forced to act, and take brutal on revenge on those who've stolen his life...
Now adapted for the big screen in the 2010 Blockbuster film starring Colin Farrell and Keira Knightley
'The exuberance of language, the relish with which seediness is described .. it's a pleasure to imagine Hammett cutting loose with whatever rascally high jinks he could cook up'
—— Margaret Atwood'The ace performer'
—— Raymond ChandlerA first-rate historical thriller, set in the early 1930s and inspired by correspondence between Einstein and his first wife... Sington's grasp of period detail is awesome...and his writing has a rich, lustrous quality...This is a serious novel with plenty to say about the unhappy affinity between genius and madness
—— John O'Connell , The GuardianIntriguing novel... atmospheric thriller
—— Irish IndependentSington creates a sense of unease from the first page
—— Alastair Mabbott , HeraldA dark and beautiful novel, a fascinating historical thriller, and a tender love story
—— Rebecca Stott, author of New York Times bestselling GhostwalkAn intriguing thriller set on the boundaries between madness and genius, that lost domain where few scientists go. A foray into a little known facet of the greatest mind of the 20th century, The Einstein Girl is all the better for not being what you might expect
—— João Magueijo, Professor in Theoretical Physics at Imperial College, London, and author of Faster than the Speed of LightThis complex novel is a brilliant mystery with an intelligent narrative that raises those key questions that keep you turning the pages
—— eurocrime.co.uk