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Bruen, Ken The Guards: A Novel
Minotaur Books 2004 0-312-32027-2 / 9780312320270 Paperback Very Good
There's something about the job that leads (fictional) cops and PIs to drin k, which is why booze always seems to be a minor character in the genre. Th is is certainly the case in Ken Bruen's debut thriller about melancholy Iri shman Jack Taylor, whose luck at finding things keeps him in beer money aft er he's kicked out of Ireland's Garda Siochna. When the mother of a young s uicide victim asks him to investigate her daughter's death, Taylor discover s that Sarah Henderson isn't the only teenager to take a long walk off a sh ort Galway pier. His search for the perpetrator gets his best friend killed , destroys his nascent relationship with his client, and sets him up for a final betrayal few readers will see coming.
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Bruen, Ken The Killing of the Tinkers: A Novel
Minotaur Books 2005 0-312-33928-3 / 9780312339289 Paperback Near Fine
With his second Jack Taylor crime novel (after 2003's The Guards), Irish au thor Bruen confirms his rightful place among the finest noir stylists of hi s generation. A year after the newly sober Jack Taylor left Galway to start a new life in London, the former member of the Gardai Siochana (the Irish police) returns home, a failed marriage behind him. The PI is sinking back into alcoholic oblivion when an Irish Gypsy, Sweeper, approaches Jack for h elp in solving the murders of a number of young men in his clan. The Guards aren't interested, since, after all, "it's only tinkers... and everyone kn ows, they're always killing each other." The quintessential outsider himsel f, Jack empathizes with the roaming Gypsies and feels comfortable in their company. Enlisting the aid of Keegan, a burly cop friend from London, Jack sets about investigating the killings, while at the same time he struggles to keep his own personal demons under control. Bruen's spare, lean style re ads like prose poetry. Indeed, beneath the surface of Jack's jaded, self-de structiveness is a romantic with a poet's sensibilities. An autodidact, Jac k continually references his literary heroes, from Chester Himes to Thomas Merton. Next to his bottle of Jameson is always a book to help him through the hard times: "I needed Merton and a pint. Not necessarily in that order. " This is a remarkable book from a singular talent.
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Bruen, Ken The Magdalen Martyrs
Minotaur Books 2006 0-312-35351-0 / 9780312353513 Paperback Near Fine
In his third case, Galwegian ex-cop Jack Taylor--The Guards (2002), The Kil ling of the Tinkers (2003--buries some old friends and enemies while meetin g some intriguing new ones, thanks to the addition of pills to his coterie of demons (booze, cocaine, and books). This time Jack's progress toward sel f-destruction is slowed both by a desultory search for a fallen angel linke d to a hellish Catholic laundry and by his probe into the black habits of a sexually voracious widow. The series' real draw, though, has never been th e story lines; rather, it's the eclectic, lyrical screeds pouring forth fro m the narrator's ruined heart. Some readers may balk at Taylor's constant l iterary references (in the midst of a beating, he descants on Henry Green, a "writers' writer's writer"), but these allusions are fueled by the same h ard spiritual and physical thirst for sublimity that make him such a compel ling existential antihero, not to mention a handy readers' advisor. Suffice it to say that fans of Roddy Doyle, James Sallis, Samuel Beckett, Irvine W elsh, Frederick Exley, Patrick McCabe, George Pelecanos, Ian Rankin, and Ch uck Palahniuk will all find something to like, love, or obsess over in this stiff shot of evil chased with heartbreaking irony. Highly recommended.
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