The Ghosts of Galway - Hardcover

Ken Bruen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1786697009 ISBN 13: 9781786697004

Publisher: Head of Zeus, 2017

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 possession 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 vise 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 as the story twists toward a violent end, he is 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 and the Jack Taylor series:
"Nobody writes like Ken Bruen, with his ear for lilting Irish prose and his taste for the kind of gallows humor heard only at the foot of the gallows. The Emerald Lie is pure Bruen, with its verbal tics, weird typography and unorthodox wordplay."--Marilyn Stasio, New York Times Book Review, on The Emerald Lie
"Taylor is a classic figure: an ex-cop turned seedy private eye . . . The book's pleasure comes from listening to Taylor's eloquent rants, studded with references to songs and books. His voice is wry and bittersweet, but somehow always hopeful."--Adam Woog, Seattle Times, on Green Hell
"Bruen's voice is unmistakable: finely chiseled paragraphs that more closely resemble verse than prose . . . Bleaker than David Goodis, colder than Derek Raymond, and funnier and more violent than Richard Stark, Ken Bruen is among the most original and innovative noir voices of the last two decades."--Los Angeles Review of Books, on Headstone
"One of the most sublime pleasures in crime fiction is reading a new book by Ken Bruen. For almost twenty years now, he's been delighting mystery and noir audiences with his stunning, poetic books of the shadowy side of life . . . This is real writing, the likes of which we are blessed to behold."--David J. Montgomery, Strand Magazine, on Purgatory
"No one writes crime novels quite like Ken Bruen . . . I picture Bruen not so much writing as transcribing the words of a sweet fallen angel that are whispered feverishly into his ear."--Joe Hartlaub, Bookreporter, on The Emerald Lie
"Bruen gets more done in a paragraph, a word, even a fragment of a word, than most writers get in an entire four-hundred-page doorstop. If his prose was any sharper, your eyeballs would bleed."--Mystery Scene, on Green Hell
"The Godfather of the modern Irish crime novel."--Irish Independent, on Green Hell
"Bruen is brilliant." --Galway Advertiser (Ireland), on The Emerald Lie

Book Description:

From an Irish writer of hard-boiled and noir crime fiction comes another brand-new tale featuring profane antihero and disgraced former policeman Jack Taylor.

About this edition

• Publisher: Head of Zeus
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1786697009
• ISBN 13: 9781786697004
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 304