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Once Were Cops

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Ken Bruen's Once Were Cops melds the street poetry of Brooklyn and Dublin into a fast-paced, incomparable hard-boiled novel.Michael O'Shea is a member of Ireland's police force, known as The Guards. He's also a sociopath who walks a knife edge between sanity and all-out mayhem. When an exchange program is initiated and twenty Guards come to America and twenty cops from the States go to Ireland, ... Read more

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Ken Bruen's Once Were Cops melds the street poetry of Brooklyn and Dublin into a fast-paced, incomparable hard-boiled novel.Michael O'Shea is a member of Ireland's police force, known as The Guards. He's also a sociopath who walks a knife edge between sanity and all-out mayhem. When an exchange program is initiated and twenty Guards come to America and twenty cops from the States go to Ireland,
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Protectors: Stories to Benefit PROTECT

Protectors Anthologies, #1

by Les Edgerton, Chet Williamson, Ken Bruen, Josh Stallings, Andrew Vachss, Todd Robinson, Charlie Stella, Ray Banks, Tony Black, Steve Weddle, James Reasoner, George Pelecanos, Johnny Shaw, Joe R. Lansdale, Patti Abbott, Wayne D. Dundee, Dave White, Charles de Lint, Roxane Gay, Bill Cameron ...

Series Book 1 - Protectors Anthologies
41 writers. One cause.We've rallied a platoon of crime, western, thriller, fantasy, noir, horror and transgressive authors to support PROTECT's important work: lobbying for legislation that protects children from physical, sexual, and emotional abuse.Powerful stories from George Pelecanos, Andrew Vachss, Joe R. Lansdale, Charles de Lint, Ken Bruen, Chet Williamson, James Reasoner, Charlie Stella, ... Read more

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41 writers. One cause.We've rallied a platoon of crime, western, thriller, fantasy, noir, horror and transgressive authors to support PROTECT's important work: lobbying for legislation that protects children from physical, sexual, and emotional abuse.Powerful stories from George Pelecanos, Andrew Vachss, Joe R. Lansdale, Charles de Lint, Ken Bruen, Chet Williamson, James Reasoner, Charlie Stella,
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The Jack Taylor Series, Books 1-3

The Guards, The Killing of the Tinkers, and The Magdalen Martyrs

by Ken Bruen ...

Series series Jack Taylor Series
Ken Bruen's explosive Jack Taylor series, set in the streets of Galway, place him among the greats of modern crime fiction. Now, for the first time, the first three books in the series are available as an eBook bundle:The GuardsOusted from the Guards, Ireland's police force, Jack Taylor is stuck in Galway with nothing to look forward to, until a dazzling woman walks into the bar with a strange ... Read more

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Ken Bruen's explosive Jack Taylor series, set in the streets of Galway, place him among the greats of modern crime fiction. Now, for the first time, the first three books in the series are available as an eBook bundle:The GuardsOusted from the Guards, Ireland's police force, Jack Taylor is stuck in Galway with nothing to look forward to, until a dazzling woman walks into the bar with a strange
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The Guards

A Jack Taylor Novel

by Ken Bruen ...

Series Book 1 - Jack Taylor Series
**An Edgar Award Nominee for Best Novel.Praised by authors and critics around the globe, The Guards is the first novel in the Jack Taylor series and heralded the arrival of prominent Irish writer Ken Bruen as an essential voice in contemporary crime fiction.**Still stinging from his unceremonious ouster from the Garda Siochana--The Guards, Ireland's police force--and staring at the world through ... Read more

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**An Edgar Award Nominee for Best Novel.Praised by authors and critics around the globe, The Guards is the first novel in the Jack Taylor series and heralded the arrival of prominent Irish writer Ken Bruen as an essential voice in contemporary crime fiction.**Still stinging from his unceremonious ouster from the Garda Siochana--The Guards, Ireland's police force--and staring at the world through
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Callous

by Ken Bruen ...

Inheriting a Galway cottage may change a troubled woman's life—but not the way she hopes—in this thriller from an "original, grimly hilarious" author ( The Washington Post).Kate Mitchell's in the process of kicking her heroin addiction—with the help of alcohol—when a letter arrives informing her that her aunt in Ireland has passed away and bequeathed her a home near the ocean. This could be the ... Read more

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Inheriting a Galway cottage may change a troubled woman's life—but not the way she hopes—in this thriller from an "original, grimly hilarious" author ( The Washington Post).Kate Mitchell's in the process of kicking her heroin addiction—with the help of alcohol—when a letter arrives informing her that her aunt in Ireland has passed away and bequeathed her a home near the ocean. This could be the
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The Book of Virtue

by Ken Bruen ...

Series Book 1 - Bibliomysteries
With his hated father dead, a man's life takes a dangerous turn.He doesn't cry when his father, Frank, dies. The old man was an abusive, self-absorbed drunk, and when cancer takes him to his deathbed, his son is there to watch. At Frank's final moment he leans over and whispers in his ear, letting the dying man know that he's glad to see him go.His only inheritance is a heavy, leather-bound book. ... Read more

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With his hated father dead, a man's life takes a dangerous turn.He doesn't cry when his father, Frank, dies. The old man was an abusive, self-absorbed drunk, and when cancer takes him to his deathbed, his son is there to watch. At Frank's final moment he leans over and whispers in his ear, letting the dying man know that he's glad to see him go.His only inheritance is a heavy, leather-bound book.
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Dispatching Baudelaire

by Ken Bruen ...

Throughout his life accountant Mike Shaw has played it safe, kept his head down, and avoided risk. His girlfriend Brenda is a secretary. Their idea of a night on the town is to visit the local pizza parlour. But when Mike meets Laura in a bar off The Strand, their lives are irrevocably changed. Small, sexy, smart – and utterly dangerous – Laura instantly spellbinds Mike and leads him into a world ... Read more

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Throughout his life accountant Mike Shaw has played it safe, kept his head down, and avoided risk. His girlfriend Brenda is a secretary. Their idea of a night on the town is to visit the local pizza parlour. But when Mike meets Laura in a bar off The Strand, their lives are irrevocably changed. Small, sexy, smart – and utterly dangerous – Laura instantly spellbinds Mike and leads him into a world
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Dublin Noir

The Celtic Tiger vs. the Ugly American

by Ken Bruen ...

Series series Akashic Noir
Gritty crime fiction filled with dark Irish wit from Eoin Colfer, James O. Born, Laura Lippman, and many more.The Irish master of noir Ken Bruen—and an all-star lineup of award-winning authors from both sides of the Atlantic—shine a light on the dark streets of Dublin in this collection of short fiction.Dublin Noir introduces secret corners of a fascinating city and surprise assaults on the ... Read more

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Gritty crime fiction filled with dark Irish wit from Eoin Colfer, James O. Born, Laura Lippman, and many more.The Irish master of noir Ken Bruen—and an all-star lineup of award-winning authors from both sides of the Atlantic—shine a light on the dark streets of Dublin in this collection of short fiction.Dublin Noir introduces secret corners of a fascinating city and surprise assaults on the
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Headstone

by Ken Bruen ...

Series Book 9 - The Jack Taylor Novels
A dark, edgy novel from a master of Irish crime fiction who "is threatening to become a mass cult figure in the U.S. as well as a critical favorite" ( The Atlantic).An elderly priest is nearly beaten to death. A special-needs boy is brutally attacked. Evil has many guises, and private investigator Jack Taylor has encountered most of them. But nothing before has ever truly terrified him until he ... Read more

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A dark, edgy novel from a master of Irish crime fiction who "is threatening to become a mass cult figure in the U.S. as well as a critical favorite" ( The Atlantic).An elderly priest is nearly beaten to death. A special-needs boy is brutally attacked. Evil has many guises, and private investigator Jack Taylor has encountered most of them. But nothing before has ever truly terrified him until he
... Read more
In the Galway Silence

by Ken Bruen ...

Series Book 14 - The Jack Taylor Novels
A New York Times Best Mystery of the Year: A hard-drinking detective deals with double murder and an elusive vigilante.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—until a wealthy ... Read more

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A New York Times Best Mystery of the Year: A hard-drinking detective deals with double murder and an elusive vigilante.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—until a wealthy
... Read more

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SUPERMAX: The Max and Angela Trilogy

by Ken Bruen, Jason Starr ...

Three books in one, Supermax is a pitch-black crime comedy from two of the hottest thriller writers on either side of the Atlantic. These newly collected cult novels are a bloody, bawdy odyssey of drug dealing, adultery, and murder for fans of Elmore Leonard, Carl Hiaasen, and Bret Easton Ellis’s American Psycho.THE MOST OUTRAGEOUS CRIME STORY EVER TOLD...IN A SINGLE VOLUME FOR THE FIRST TIME!When ... Read more

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Three books in one, Supermax is a pitch-black crime comedy from two of the hottest thriller writers on either side of the Atlantic. These newly collected cult novels are a bloody, bawdy odyssey of drug dealing, adultery, and murder for fans of Elmore Leonard, Carl Hiaasen, and Bret Easton Ellis’s American Psycho.THE MOST OUTRAGEOUS CRIME STORY EVER TOLD...IN A SINGLE VOLUME FOR THE FIRST TIME!When
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A Galway Epiphany

by Ken Bruen ...

Series Book 16 - The Jack Taylor Novels
"They don't come much tougher than Ken Bruen's Irish roughneck, Jack Taylor, a man with bad habits who does good despite himself."―Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book ReviewEx-cop-turned-PI Jack Taylor has finally escaped the despair of his violent life in Galway in favor of a quiet retirement in the country with his friend, a former Rolling Stones roadie, and a falcon named Maeve. But on a ... Read more

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"They don't come much tougher than Ken Bruen's Irish roughneck, Jack Taylor, a man with bad habits who does good despite himself."―Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book ReviewEx-cop-turned-PI Jack Taylor has finally escaped the despair of his violent life in Galway in favor of a quiet retirement in the country with his friend, a former Rolling Stones roadie, and a falcon named Maeve. But on a
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