Ken Bruen Livres

Violents, indisciplinés et très franchement aux limites extrêmes de la légalité, les deux flics Roberts et Brant des quartiers populaires de Londres se demandent s'ils ne vont pas être les premiers à faire les frais d'un sérieux coup de balai prévu dans la police métropolitaine. Comme faire son boulot correctement est inenvisageable, il va bien falloir trouver un truc imparable. Une idée sublime qui fasse d'eux le nobélisables de l'anti-gang, les protecteurs du citoyen modèle, les nouveaux flics garants de l'ordre à venir, en mesure de nettoyer au karcher les taudis, de faire la une des tabloïds à midi et de parader le soir sur les plateaux de télé...

Taylor has hit rock bottom: one of his best friends is dead, the other has stopped speaking to him; he has given up battling his addiction to alcohol and pills; and his firing from the Irish national police, the Garda, is ancient history. He takes up a vigilante case against a respected professor of literature at the University of Galway who has a violent habit his friends in high places are only too happy to ignore. He rescues Boru Kennedy, a preppy American student, from a couple of thugs. Enter Emerald, an edgy young Goth who could either be the answer to Jack's problems, or the last ripped stitch in his undoing.

Ex-cop turned private eye Jack Taylor is on the hunt for a psychotic assassin who has been killing Galway police officers, one by one.

The South East London police squad are down and out: Detective Sergeant Brant is in hot water for assaulting a police shrink, Chief Inspector Roberts' wife has died in a horrific car accident, and WPC Falls is still figuring out how to navigate her job as a black female investigator in the notorious unit. When a serial killer takes his show on the road, things get worse for all three. Nicknamed "The Blitz" by the rabid London media, the killer is aiming for tabloid immortality by killing cops in different beats around the city.Blitz represents Ken Bruen at his edgy, lethal, and sharp-tongued best, and will reward fans of his Jack Taylor novels with another astonishing, smart, and brutal vision from a writer rapidly becoming one of the best of his generation.

Struggling with his fragile sobriety, Jack Taylor finds himself entangled with Bill Cassell, a menacing figure in Galway to whom he owes a debt. Cassell, known for his ruthless nature, demands repayment for a past favor, forcing Jack to confront his demons and navigate the dangerous undercurrents of his life. As he grapples with his addiction and the pressure from Cassell, Jack's journey reveals the complexities of loyalty and the harsh realities of his choices.

A boy has been crucified in Galway city. People are shocked; the broadsheets debate how the brutal death reflects the state of the nation; the Irish Church is scandalized. No further action is taken. Then the sister of the murdered boy is burned alive and PI Jack Taylor decides to take matters into his own hands. Taylor's investigations take him to old city haunts where he encounters ghosts - living and dead. But what he eventually finds surpasses even his darkest imaginings

Someone is scraping the scum off the streets of Galway, and they want Jack Taylor to get involved. A drug pusher, a rapist, a loan shark, all targeted in what look like vigilante attacks. And the killer is writing to Jack, signing their name: C-33. Jack has had enough. He doesnâe(tm)t need the money, and doesnâe(tm)t want to get involved. But when his friend Stewart gets drawn in, it seems he isnâe(tm)t been given a choice. In the meantime, Jack is being courted by Reardon, a charismatic billionaire intent on buying up much of Galway, and begins a tentative relationship with Reardonâe(tm)s PR director, Kelly. Caught between heaven and hell, thereâe(tm)s only one path for Jack Taylor to take: Purgatory.

Seems impossible, but Jack Taylor is sober---off booze, pills, powder, and nearly off cigarettes, too. The main reason he's been able to keep clean: his dealer's in jail, which leaves Jack without a source. When that dealer calls him to Dublin and asks a favor in the soiled, sordid visiting room of Mountjoy Prison, Jack wants to tell him to take a flying leap. But he doesn't, can't, because the dealer's sister is dead, and the guards have called it "death by misadventure." The dealer knows that can't be true and begs Jack to have a look, check around, see what he can find out. It's exactly what Jack does, with varying levels of success, to make a living. But he's reluctant, maybe because of who's asking or maybe because of the bad feeling growing in his gut. Never one to give in to bad feelings or common sense, Jack agrees to the favor, though he can't possibly know the shocking, deadly consequences he has set in motion. But he and everyone he holds dear will find out soon, sooner than anyone knows, in The Dramatist, the lean and lethal fourth entry in Ken Bruen's award-winning Jack Taylor series.

Michael O'Shea, a sociopathic member of Ireland's police force, joins the NYPD through an exchange program, fulfilling his lifelong ambition. However, his unstable psyche threatens to turn his dream into a nightmare for New York City. As he navigates the complexities of American law enforcement, the line between his duties and chaotic impulses blurs, leading to unpredictable consequences. The story explores themes of identity, morality, and the darker side of ambition in a gripping narrative filled with tension.

Accepting the power of Headstone, Jack realizes that in order to fight back he must relinquish the remaining shreds of what has made him human - knowledge that may have come too late to prevent an act of such ferocious evil that the whole country would be changed forever - and in the worst way.