Mick Donnellan’s new book, El Niño, is going to be launched by Liam Horan at the Ballinrobe Town Library at 7pm on Saturday 25th of February.
Everyone is welcome to come along to what promises to be a wonderful evening.

For those who can not make it to Ballinrobe there will be a second launch in Galway in the Galway Arms Pub, 65 Lower Dominick Street on Tuesday 28th of February at 7pm

About El Niño

Charlie is a pick-pocket with a complicated past. He steals El Niño’s wallet, then falls in love with her. She’s wild, beautiful; intoxicating. He’s a recovering alcoholic and needs to stay away from the pubs. Their relationship takes flight and is full of passion and possibility. But soon, Charlie’s demons come back to haunt him. P.J., a member of an old crime gang he used to work with, offers Charlie some work – a once-off robbery that seems well planned and very profitable. But it doesn’t turn out that way and one of the crew is arrested.

P.J.’s boss is Kramer – a vicious thug that Charlie grew up with in his hometown of Ballinrobe. They’d gone their separate ways when Kramer began dealing Cocaine and started a gang war that nearly cost Charlie his life. Now he’s back and he’s sure Charlie is talking to the police – an unforgivable crime in gangland.

It seems there are no ‘outs’ and all the couple can do is try and escape, but fate seems to have other plans….

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