Ken Bruen: The Killing of the Tinkers (UK 2010)

From the Publisher:
THE BREAKTHROUGH SERIES BY THE IRISH MASTER OF NOIR
"Collectively, the Jack Taylor novels are Bruen's masterwork." This Week

"With his second Jack Taylor novel, Irish author Bruen confirms his rightful place among the finest noir stylists of his generation." Publisher's Weekly

"Anything by the Irish writer Ken Bruen is well worth checking out." Sunday Independent

"Ken Bruen's second Jack Taylor novel is fast-moving and immensely readable." Irish Emigrant

"Edgy, pitch-black humour." Guardian

"A masterful black novel, full of unforgettable characters and a never dissipating cloud of menace that mirrors the persistent Galway rain, coming down hard on all concerned." Bizarre

Ken Bruen was a finalist for the Edgar, Barry, and Macavity Awards, and the Private Eye Writers of America presented him with the Shamus Award for the Best Novel of 2003 for The Guards, the book that introduced Jack Taylor. Ken received the best series award in February 2007 for the Jack Taylor novels from The Crime Writers Association of America. The Dramatist was nominated in March 2007 for a Gumshoe Award for the BEST EUROPEAN CRIME NOVEL of 2006.

Ken Bruen: The Killing of the Tinkers. The Second Jack Taylor Novel. Brandon, ISBN: 9780863224119 (February, 2010), 256 p., £7.99.

Ken Bruen: The Killing of the Tinkers (USA 2005)

From the Publisher:
When Jack Taylor blew town at the end of The Guards his alcoholism was a distant memory and sober dreams of a new life in London were shining in his eyes. In the opening pages of The Killing of the Tinkers, Jack's back in Galway a year later with a new leather jacket on his back, a pack of smokes in his pocket, a few grams of coke in his waistband, and a pint of Guinness on his mind. So much for new beginnings.

Before long he's sunk into his old patterns, lifting his head from the bar only every few days, appraising his surroundings for mere minutes and then descending deep into the alcoholic, drug-induced fugue he prefers to the real world. But a big gypsy walks into the bar one day during a moment of Jack's clarity and changes all that with a simple request. Jack knows the look in this man's eyes, a look of hopelessness mixed with resolve topped off with a quietly simmering rage he's seen it in the mirror. Recognizing a kindred soul, Jack agrees to help him, knowing but not admitting that getting involved is going to lead to more bad than good. But in Jack Taylor's world bad and good are part and parcel of the same lost cause, and besides, no one ever accused Jack of having good sense.

Ken Bruen wowed critics and readers alike when he introduced Jack Taylor in The Guards he'll blow them away with The Killing of the Tinkers, a novel of gritty brilliance that cements Bruen's place among the greats of modern crime fiction.

Ken Bruen: The Killing of the Tinkers. A Novel. St. Martin's Minotaur, ISBN: 0312339283 (March, 2005), 244 p., $14.99.

Ken Bruen: The Killing of the Tinkers (USA 2004)

From the Publisher:
When Jack Taylor blew town at the end of The Guards his alcoholism was a distant memory and sober dreams of a new life in London were shining in his eyes. In the opening pages of The Killing of the Tinkers, Jack's back in Galway a year later with a new leather jacket on his back, a pack of smokes in his pocket, a few grams of coke in his waistband, and a pint of Guinness on his mind. So much for new beginnings.

Before long he's sunk into his old patterns, lifting his head from the bar only every few days, appraising his surroundings for mere minutes and then descending deep into the alcoholic, drug-induced fugue he prefers to the real world. But a big gypsy walks into the bar one day during a moment of Jack's clarity and changes all that with a simple request. Jack knows the look in this man's eyes, a look of hopelessness mixed with resolve topped off with a quietly simmering rage he's seen it in the mirror. Recognizing a kindred soul, Jack agrees to help him, knowing but not admitting that getting involved is going to lead to more bad than good. But in Jack Taylor's world bad and good are part and parcel of the same lost cause, and besides, no one ever accused Jack of having good sense.

Ken Bruen wowed critics and readers alike when he introduced Jack Taylor in The Guards he'll blow them away with The Killing of the Tinkers, a novel of gritty brilliance that cements Bruen's place among the greats of modern crime fiction.

Ken Bruen: The Killing of the Tinkers. A Novel. St. Martin's Minotaur, ISBN: 0312304110 (January, 2004), 244 p., $22.95.