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JOHN LEE has acted in shows ranging from Beckett to Shaw and has narrated hundreds of audiobooks including the works of Nobel Winner Orhan Pahmuk and James Joyce’s Ulysses. He is an Audie® Award winner, an AudioFile Golden Voice, and recipient of dozens of Earphone Awards.
Headstone (Jack Taylor Series #9)
by Ken Bruen
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ISBN-13:
9780802195043
- Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
- Publication date: 10/04/2011
- Series: Jack Taylor Series , #9
- Sold by: Barnes & Noble
- Format: eBook
- Pages: 256
- Sales rank: 85,259
- File size: 500 KB
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Acclaimed Irish crime writer Ken Bruen has won numerous awards for his hard-charging, dark thrillers, which have been translated into ten languages. In Headstone, an elderly priest is nearly beaten to death and a special-needs boy is brutally attacked. Evil has many guises and Jack Taylor has encountered most of them. But nothing before has ever truly terrified him until he confronts an evil coterie named Headstone, who have committed a series of random, insane, violent crimes in Galway, Ireland.
Most would see a headstone as a marker of the dead, but this organization seems like it will act as a death knell to every aspect of Jack’s life. Jack’s usual allies, Ridge and Stewart, are also in the line of terror. An act of appalling violence alerts them to the sleeping horror, but this realization may be too late, as Headstone barrels along its deadly path right to the center of Jack’s life and the heart of Galway. A terrific read from a writer called “a Celtic Dashiell Hammett,” Headstone is an excellent addition to the Jack Taylor series (Philadelphia Inquirer)
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Publishers Weekly
Irish author Bruen’s hard-hitting ninth Jack Taylor novel (after The Devil) finds the Galway PI coping with alcoholism, a permanent limp, hearing loss, and emotional scars that continually threaten to take him down. For once, however, Taylor appears to have found a promising love interest in Laura, an American-born crime novelist, with whom he’s recently enjoyed a romantic idyll in Paris. Of course, moments of grace are fleeting in Bruen’s world, and things rapidly head south after Taylor receives a miniature gravestone in the post, courtesy of a group of psychopaths calling themselves “Headstone.” Led by a fanatic recidivist criminal from a previous Taylor case, they target the “weak,” including the handicapped, the mentally ill, and the homeless. Now they have their sights set on Taylor and everyone close to him. That the plot is a tad cartoonish and over-the-top scarcely matters in a remarkable series that at heart is about one man’s reckoning with a lifetime of pain and loss in a rapidly changing Ireland. (Oct.)Booklist
A must for the Bruen faithful.”—Booklist
Euro Crime
I was knocked out by Headstone. Bleak and dark, shot through with humour and humanity, written with elegance—Headstone is terrific. I have become a Bruen fan.”—Euro Crime
From the Publisher
Praise for Headstone “Hard hitting ... a remarkable series.”— Publishers Weekly
“Headstone is an excellent addition to the Jack Taylor series.”— Philadelphia Inquirer
“Ken Bruen is brilliant. While HEADSTONE is the stuff of nightmares, it is also the stuff of redemption, even at great cost. You will feel wrung out after reading this one, but all the gladder for it.”— Bookreporter
“Headstone is one of the year's best reading pleasures.”— Crime Fiction Dossier
“Bruen is threatening to become a mass cult figure in the U.S. as well as a critical favorite.”—Allen Barra, The Atlantic
“A nonstop rampage of intrigue, mayhem, lunacy and dark-dark-dark humor.”— Shelf Awareness
"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
“A welcome entry. B+.”— Avid Mystery Reader
Library Journal
Award-winning author Bruen brings back the intrepid Jack Taylor (The Devil) to figure out a brutal series of hate crimes, seemingly random, in Galway, Ireland. Even Jack will be flummoxed by the pure evil he's forced to confront. [See Prepub Alert, 4/4/11.]