Whatever it Takes

By Tadhg Coakley

Set in Cork city, Detective Garda Collins is at war with the leading local criminal, Dominic Molloy. Unwilling to accept the human degradation caused by Molloy’s drugs, violence and prostitution. He has made up his mind to bring Molloy down, but just how far is he willing to go to make that happen? What is he willing to do and what fall-out will ensue for himself and his garda colleagues? This tense crime novel (the first in a series featuring Collins) tells the story of two immovable forces colliding. Something has to give. Running out of time before the murder of two teenagers becomes inevitable, and with a traitor in the garda station feeding information back to Molloy, Collins takes his battle to new heights. He is determined to win, whatever the cost, whatever it takes.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Mercier Press
• Release date: Apr 27, 2020
• ISBN: 9781781177785

Tadhg Coakley

Tadhg Coakley  is the award winning author of five books. His debut novel  The First Sunday in September  was shortlisted for the Mercier Fiction Prize and published in 2018 to much acclaim. His crime novel  Whatever It Takes ( Part 1 of the Tim Collins Series) was chosen as the 2020 Cork, One City One Book.  Everything  (a sports autobiography, which he co-wrote with its subject, Denis Coughlan) was one of the 2020 sports books of the year in  The Sunday Times, The Irish Examiner  and  The Irish Times . His bestselling memoir  The Game: A Journey into the Heart of Sport  (2022) was described in  The Irish Examiner  as ‘one of the most distinctive, original, beautiful and best books on sport this country has known’. Tadhg’s short stories, articles and essays have been widely published.