The Ghosts of Galway

The Ghosts of Galway
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The Jack Taylor Novels, Book 13

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فرمت کتاب

ebook

تاریخ انتشار

2017

نویسنده

Ken Bruen

ناشر

Grove Atlantic

شابک

9780802188847
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Publisher's Weekly

Starred review from September 11, 2017
Jack Taylor, Bruen’s perennially tortured protagonist, suffers new levels of angst in his 13th noir outing (after 2016’s The Emerald Lie). Recovering from a failed suicide attempt after a mistaken diagnosis of terminal cancer, Taylor is trying to live the quiet life in Galway, working as a security guard and looking after his dog, Storm. Trouble, however, has a way of finding him. When his boss offers him a job searching for The Red Book, a lost heretical text apparently in the possession of an ex-priest hiding in Ireland, Taylor initially scoffs at the “Dan Brown lite” scheme, but he needs the money and ultimately accepts. Meanwhile, a series of slain animals are found in Galway’s Eyre Square accompanied by cryptic notes left by an ultra–right-wing group that aims to return to an earlier era of conservative religion. When Emily, the chameleonlike sociopath who’s flitted in and out of Jack’s life, turns out to be mixed up in the plot, things get really nasty. Bruen is in top form, and, although everything Taylor touches seems to turn to ash, he embodies such humanity that readers will be unable to resist rooting for him. Agent: Lukas Ortiz, Philip G. Spitzer Literary Agency.



Library Journal

October 1, 2017

Following a failed suicide attempt, Bruen's profane Jack Taylor (The Emerald Lie) is down on his luck--as usual--and working as a security guard. His boss offers him a temptingly large sum of money to find a heretical book rumored to be in the possession of a priest hiding in Galway, Ireland, after fleeing the Vatican in Rome. The elusive and captivating Em, who has preoccupied Jack's heart and soul since being introduced in Green Hell, is also entangled in the hunt for The Red Book as the darkness that surrounds Jack threatens to overwhelm him. VERDICT Employing elegantly poetic brevity and exploring religion's dark side, a favored motif, this is another strong addition to Bruen's noirish canon. Jack Taylor is an iconic character, a charming reprobate whose plaintive booze-drenched rants are the perfect vehicle for Bruen's black humor and insights related to pop culture, music, and literature. [See Prepub Alert, 5/7/17.]--ACT

Copyright 2017 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.



Booklist

September 15, 2017
Onetime Irish PI Jack Taylor, who knows every seedy bar in Galway, is recovering from a failed suicide attempt, and the doctor who diagnosed a terminal condition seems to have changed his mind. In need of money, Jack finds work as a night-shift security guard. Jack's boss, a wealthy Ukrainian, offers him a big payday if Jack can secure The Red Book, purported to be a blasphemous take on The Book of Kells. Then the beautiful, psychotic, homicidal Emerald (The Emerald Lie, 2016) turns up again. Galway is darker than ever here, and the ghosts that haunt Jackall the people he ever cared forgrow in number. Bruen's faithful followers will find that this one is not unlike Jack's earlier ventures on the dark side, especially those in which the bewitching Emerald appears. But there is a difference: Jack's formerly howling philippics about life in Ireland are dialed down to gripes. He merely notes the deaths of David Bowie and Lemmy and mentions his distaste for candidate Trump. Jack, it seems, has become an old man, binge-watching boxed sets of TV shows.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2017, American Library Association.)




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