The Ghosts of Galway: 14 (Jack Taylor Novels) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0802127339 ISBN 13: 9780802127334

Synopsis

Jack Taylor is recovering from a mistaken medical diagnosis and a failed suicide attempt. In need of money, and with former cop on his resume, Jack has been hired as a night-shift security guard. But his Ukrainian boss has Jack in mind for some off-the-books work. He wants Jack to find what some claim to be the first true book of heresy, The Red Book, currently in the hands of a rogue priest who is hiding out in Galway after fleeing a position at the Vatican. Despite Jack's distaste for priests of any stripe, the money is too good to turn down.

Em, the many-faced woman who has had a vice on Jack's heart and mind for the past two years, reappears and turns out to be entangled with the story of The Red Book, too, leading Jack down ever more mysterious and lethal pathways.

It seems all sides are angling for a piece of Jack Taylor, but his is a man increasingly plagued by ghosts – by the disposable and disposed of in a city filled with as much darkness as the deepest corners of Jack's own mind.

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Review:

PRAISE FOR KEN BRUEN:
'If his prose was any sharper, your eyeballs would bleed' Mystery Scene.
'Nobody writes like Ken Bruen, with his lilting Irish prose and his taste for the gallows humor' New York Times.
'The Godfather of the modern Irish crime novel' Irish Independent.

About the Author:

Ken Bruen is one of the most prominent Irish crime writers of the last two decades. Born in Galway, he spent twenty-five years travelling the world before he began writing in the mid 1990s.

About this edition

• ISBN 10: 0802127339
• ISBN 13: 9780802127334
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 330