Jack Taylor
Ken Bruen
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Beschreibung
A portrait of the PI from the Shamus Award winner who created him: "e;They don't come much tougher than Ken Bruen's Irish roughneck, Jack Taylor."e; -The New York Times Book ReviewIn this short work, Edgar Award finalist Ken Bruen-"e;a Celtic Dashiell Hammett"e;-takes us deeper into his character Jack Taylor, formerly of Ireland's police force, the Garda Siochana, now a living-on-the-edge private detective (The Philadelphia Inquirer)."e;Jack, as ja 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."e; -Kirkus Reviews"e;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."e; -Booklist"e;The Godfather of the modern Irish crime novel."e; -The Irish Times "e;[Taylor's] voice is wry and bittersweet, but somehow always hopeful."e; -The Seattle Times