Jack Caffery · Book 1
Birdman
- Published
- 1 January 2000
- Pages
- 448
- ISBN-13
- 9780440236160
- Type
- novel
About this book
Birdman introduced Mo Hayder's Jack Caffery series in 2000, running 448 pages. It establishes Caffery as a Bristol Major Crimes detective carrying a private wound -- his brother Ewan's unsolved childhood disappearance -- and sets the series' forensically graphic, unflinching tone.
Its place in Jack Caffery
Birdman is book 1 in the Jack Caffery series. It is followed by The Treatment. See the full Jack Caffery reading order.
Detective Inspector Jack Caffery works Bristol's Major Crimes Investigation Unit, but the series opener Birdman (1999/2000) makes clear from its first pages that Mo Hayder's crime fiction sits at the extreme end of the genre: forensically graphic, willing to follow serial killers, torturers, and traffickers into territory most British crime writers avoid, and unflinching about the psychological cost to the investigators who chase them. Caffery himself carries a private wound throughout the series -- his brother…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780440236160