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Synopsis
The latest Jack Taylor novel from the Godfather of Irish noir.
Jack Taylor has never quite been able get his life together, but now he has truly hit rock bottom. Still reeling from a violent family tragedy, Taylor is busy drowning his grief in Jameson and uppers, as usual, when a high-profile officer in the local Garda is murdered.
After another Guard is found dead, and then another, Taylor's old colleagues from the force implore him to take on the case. The plot is one big game, and all of the pieces seem to be moving at the behest of one dangerously mysterious team: a trio of young killers with very different styles, but who are united in their common desire to take down Jack Taylor. Their ring leader is Jericho, a psychotic girl from Galway who is grieving the loss of her lover, and who will force Jack to confront some personal trauma from his past.
As sharp and sardonic as it is starkly bleak and violent, Galway Girl shows master raconteur Ken Bruen at his best: lyrical, brutal, and ceaselessly suspenseful.
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PRAISE FOR KEN BRUEN:
'Bruen has a surreal mind and an unusual writing style of short, sharp, often one-word sentences. It shouldn’t work, but it does, delightfully' The Times, Books of the Year.
'Wonderfully evocative of Ireland, this is a gritty, brutal tale told with its author's typical lyricism' Daily Mail.
'In the Galway Silence exudes a nihilistic thrill in smashing the crime fiction conventions to smithereens' Irish Times.
'Widely regarded as one of Ireland's most original voices in crime fiction, Ken Bruen's dark Jack Taylor novels – delivered in precise, skeletal prose – have won critical plaudits and myriad fans around the world ... This latest chapter in Taylor's life is a bleak, gripping slice of noir Irish life, but as good a read as you'll come across this year' Irish Independent.
'Bruen's visceral writing and anger brings a fierce, almost surreal intensity to this mad story of a heretical book that turns up in Galway' Metro.
Book Description
The latest instalment in Ireland's most distinctive crime series finds ex-cop turned private eye Jack Taylor on the hunt for a psychotic assassin who has been killing Galway police officers, one by one.
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- PublisherHead of Zeus
- Publication date2019
- ISBN 10 1838933077
- ISBN 13 9781838933074
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages368
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