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The Guards (Jack Taylor) Book

There's something about the job that leads (fictional) cops and PIs to drink, which is why booze always seems to be a minor character in the genre. This is certainly the case in Ken Bruen's debut thriller about melancholy Irishman Jack Taylor, whose luck at finding things keeps him in beer money after he's kicked out of Ireland's Garda Siochna. When the mother of a young suicide victim asks him to investigate her daughter's death, Taylor discovers that Sarah Henderson isn't the only teenager to take a long walk off a short Galway pier. His search for the perpetrator gets his best friend killed, destroys his nascent relationship with his client, and sets him up for a final betrayal few readers will see coming. This promising writer doesn't need all the tricky punctuation and excess quotations from other writers to punch up his sharp, lyrical prose, but these are minor quibbles--he's a newcomer to watch. --Jane AdamsRead More

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  • Product Description

    The most astonishing piece of crime fiction to come along in years-gritty, absorbing, and saturated with the rough-edged rhythms of the Galway streets. Still mourning the decades-old death of his father, stinging from his unceremonious ouster from the Garda Sochna-The Guards, Ireland's police force-and staring at the world through the smoky bottom of his beer mug, Jack Taylor is stuck in Galway with nothing to look forward to. Nothing, that is, until a dazzling woman walks into the bar with a strange request and a rumor about Jack's talent for finding things. Odds are he won't be able to climb off his barstool long enough to get involved with his radiant new client, but when he surprises himself by getting hired, Jack has little idea of what's in store for him in this riveting, darkly humorous novel. Stark, violent, sharp, and funny,The Guards is an exceptional novel, one that will leave readers stunned and breathless, flipping back to the beginning in a mad dash to find Jack Taylor and enter his world all over again. Praised by writers and critics around the globe, The Guards heralds the arrival of an essential new crime novelist.

  • 0312303556
  • 9780312303556
  • Ken Bruen
  • 1 January 2003
  • St. Martin's Minotaur
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 304
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