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Ill-fated ex-cop Jack Taylor is broke and working nightshifts as a security guard when he receives an unexpected commission – find The Red Book, an infamous blasphemous text stolen from the Vatican archives. The thief, a rogue priest, is now believed to be hiding out in Galway. Despite Jack's distaste for priests of any stripe, the money is just too good to turn down.
It won't be hard for a man with Jack's skills to track down the errant churchman, but Jack has underestimated The Red Book's toxic lure and will be powerless to stem the wave of violence unleashed in its wake – a wave that will engulf Jack and all those around him.
'Bruen has a surreal mind and an unusual writing style of short, sharp, often one-word sentences. It shouldn't work, but it does, delightfully' The Times, Books of the Year.
Published | 02 Nov 2017 |
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Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 304 |
ISBN | 9781786696991 |
Imprint | Head of Zeus |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Bruen's spare prose perfectly suits this bleakly mesmerizing tale
Irish Independent
Bruen has a surreal mind and an unusual writing style of short, sharp, often one-word sentences. It shouldn't work, but it does, delightfully
The Times Books of the Year
Ken Bruen is a total one-off... In a hard-boiled piece of noir, Ken's unique style probably shouldn't work, yet it does, leavened with Irish whimsy and bits of homespun philosophy... Wonderful stuff, shoe-horning new vitality into an established sub-genre'
ShotsMag
This always sparky book is an excellent read
Galway Advertiser
Bruen's visceral writing and anger brings a fierce, almost surreal intensity to this mad story of a heretical book that turns up in Galway
Metro
Bruen's trademark machine-gun prose often sends word flying across the page, but it's in keeping with the poetic meditations that occupy Taylor when he's not actively fighting for his life
Connaught Telegraph
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