Jack Taylor

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