Jack Taylor: A Mysterious Profile

Apr 2022 · Open Road Media

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The Shamus Award winner recounts his famous PI's origin"They don't come much tougher than Ken Bruen's Irish roughneck, Jack Taylor" ( The New York Times Book Review ).

In this short work, Edgar Award finalist Ken Bruen—"a Celtic Dashiell Hammett"—takes us deeper into his character Jack Taylor, formerly of Ireland's police force, the Garda Síochána, now a living-on-the-edge private detective ( The Philadelphia Inquirer).

"Jack, as fans of this long-running series know all too well, has a gift for blarney, for plain speaking, for poetic melancholy, for downing shots of Jameson's [ sic ] without ice, and for pregnant one-word paragraphs." — Kirkus Reviews

"Bruen's storytelling style, a stream-of-consciousness mix of prose and verse, strips away Galway's tourist-board facade and offers a darkly comic social commentary." — Booklist

"The Godfather of the modern Irish crime novel." — The Irish Times

"[Taylor's] voice is wry and bittersweet, but somehow always hopeful." — The Seattle Times

The Shamus Award winner recounts his famous PI's origin"They don't come much tougher than Ken Bruen's Irish roughneck, Jack Taylor" ( The New York Times Book Review ). In this short work, Edgar Award finalist Ken Bruen—"a Celtic Dashiell Hammett"—takes us deeper into his character Jack Taylor, f...

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About the author

Ken Bruen (b. 1951) is one of the most prominent Irish crime writers of the last two decades. Born in Galway, he spent twenty-five years traveling the world before he began writing in the mid 1990s. As an English teacher, Bruen worked in South Africa, Japan, and South America, where he once spent a short time in a Brazilian jail. He has two long-running series: one starring a disgraced former policeman named Jack Taylor, the other a London police detective named Inspector Brant. Praised for their sharp insight into the darker side of today's prosperous Ireland, Bruen's novels are marked by grim atmosphere and clipped prose. Among the best known are his White Trilogy (1998–2000) and The Guards (2001), the Shamus Award–winning first novel in the Jack Taylor series. Bruen continues to live and work in Galway.

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