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...

Tous aux abris, Brant est de retour ! Pour la brigade du sud-est de Londres, l'affaire est rude, dure... comme d'habitude. La Renarde, la tueuse en série la plus sensuelle et la plus folle de tous les temps, est à l'origine d'une succession d'explosions. Elle est imprévisible, sauvage, furieuse, et le pire est que les flics ne savent même pas qu'elle existe. Pendant ce temps... L'inspecteur Roberts est incapable de mettre un terme aux explosions et ses subordonnés ne font guère mieux. Brant est obligé de prendre des risques inutiles et Porter Nash, qui connaît une promotion rapide, est confronté à un grave problème de santé. L'agent McDonald est résolu à poursuivre sa carrière à tout prix tandis qu'une nouvelle, l'agente Andrews, est prise sous l'aile de l'agente Falls pour un baptême du feu décoiffant. Dans les hautes sphères, le superintendant Brown est à la limite de la crise cardiaque et l'arrestation d'un innocent sous les feux des projecteurs n'est que le début de ses problèmes. Surtout que les bombes n'en finissent pas de sauter...

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.

In this long-awaited American novel by Bruen--the hard-boiled master of Irish noir--Stephen Blake, his girlfriend Siobhan, IRA terrorist Stapleton, and a psychopath named Dade are all on a collision course somewhere between the dive bars of New York and the pitiless desert of the Southwest.

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.

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.

Jack Taylor has managed to stay sober, largely due to his dealer being in jail, which cuts off his supply. However, when the dealer reaches out from prison for a favor regarding his deceased sister, Jack finds himself torn. Despite wanting to refuse, the circumstances surrounding her death, labeled "death by misadventure" by the guards, compel him to reconsider. This sets Jack on a path that intertwines his past struggles with new challenges, exploring themes of addiction, loyalty, and the quest for redemption.

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.