Inhalt: Ken Bruen has been called â??hard to resist, with his aching Irish heart, silvery tongue, and bleak noir sensibility" (New York Times Book Review). His prose is as characteristically sharp as his outlook in the latest Jack Taylor novel, In the Galway Silence. After much tragedy and violence, Jack Taylor has at long last landed at contentment. Of course, he still knocks back too much Jameson and dabbles in uppers, but he has a new woman in his life, a freshly bought apartment, and little sign of trouble on the horizon. Once again, trouble comes to him, this time in the form of a wealthy Frenchman who wants Jack to investigate the double-murder of his twin sons. Jack is meanwhile roped into looking after his girlfriendâ??s nine-year-old son, and is in for a shock with the appearance of a character out of his past. The plot is one big chess game and all of the pieces seem to be moving at the behest of one dangerously mysterious player: a vigilante called â??Silence," because heâ??s the last thing his victims will ever hear. This is Ken Bruen at his most darkly humorous, his most lovably bleak, as he shows us the meaning behind a proverb of his own designâ?"â??the Irish can abide almost anything save silence." Umfang: 288 S. ISBN: 978-0-8021-4667-0
Inhalt: Kaum zehn Minuten aus dem Knast, bricht Mitchell auch schon einem Punk den Arm. Als Geldeintreiber ist man nicht gerade zimperlich. Doch Mitchell will sein Leben ändern: legale Geldquelle, nette Frau, Kinder vielleicht. Als ihm die Diva Lillian Palmer einen Job auf ihrem Anwesen in Notting Hill anbietet, sieht er seine Chance gekommen, und Lillian könnte glatt die richtige Frau sein. Alles prima, wären da nicht Lillians zwielichtiger Butler Jordan und Tommy Logan, ein Geldhai, der seine eigenen Pläne für Mitchell hat. Gnadenlos, schnell und wenn es sein muß außerordentlich brutal, ein Typ wie Mitchell scheint wie geboren für ein Dasein zwischen Drogendealern und Geldeintreibern. Als sich ihm die Chance bietet, ein neues Leben anzufangen, holt seine Vergangenheit ihn ein. Und Mitchell schlägt zurück. Schlagworte:Belletristische Darstellung, Drogenszene, Rückfalltäter, Strafentlassener Umfang: 262 S.
Inhalt: "As well-versed in politics, pop culture, and crime fiction as he is ill-fated in life, Jack Taylor is recovering from a mistaken medical diagnosis and a failed suicide attempt. In need of money, and with former cop on his resume, Jack has been hired as a night-shift security guard. But his Ukrainian boss has Jack in mind for a bit of off-the-books work. He wants Jack to find what some claim to be the first true book of heresy, The Red Book, currently in the possession of a rogue priest who is hiding outin Galway after fleeing a position at the Vatican. Despite Jack's distaste for priests of any stripe, the money is too good to turn down. Em, the many-faced woman who has had a vise on Jack's heart and mind for the past two years, reappears and turns outto be entangled with the story of The Red Book, too, leading Jack down to ever more mysterious and lethal pathways. It seems all sides are angling for a piece of Jack Taylor, but as The Ghosts of Galway twists toward a violent end, he is increasingly plagued by ghosts--by the disposable and disposed of in a city filled with as much darkness as the deepest corners of Jack's own mind"-- Umfang: 336 S. ISBN: 978-0-8021-8884-7
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