Ken Bruen Knihy

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

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.

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.

Kaum zehn Minuten aus dem Knast, bricht Mitchell auch schon einem Punk den Arm. Als Geldeintreiber ist man nicht gerade zimperlich. Doch Mitchell will sein Leben ändern: legale Geldquelle, nette Frau, Kinder vielleicht. Als ihm die Diva Lillian Palmer einen Job auf ihrem Anwesen in Notting Hill anbietet, sieht er seine Chance gekommen – und Lillian könnte glatt die richtige Frau sein. Alles prima, wären da nicht Lillians zwielichtiger Butler Jordan und Tommy Logan, ein Geldhai, der seine eigenen Pläne für Mitchell hat … Gnadenlos, schnell und wenn es sein muss außerordentlich brutal – ein Typ wie Mitchell scheint wie geboren für ein Dasein zwischen Drogendealern und Geldeintreibern. Als sich ihm die Chance bietet, ein neues Leben anzufangen, holt seine Vergangenheit ihn ein. Und Mitchell muss zurückschlagen.

America - the land of opportunity, a place where economic prosperity beckons: but not for PI Jack Taylor, who's just been refused entry. Jack resumes his old life in Galway. But when he's called to investigate the frenzied murder of a student, he remembers an encounter with an over-friendly stranger in the airport bar.

When a letter containing a list of victims arrives in the post, PI Jack Taylor is sickened, but tells himself the list has nothing to do with him. But it is not until a child is added to the list that Taylor determines to find the identity of the killer, and stop them at any cost.

Ireland, awash in cash and greed, no longer turns to the Church for solace or comfort. But the decapitation of Father Joyce in a Galway church horrifies even the most jaded citizen. Jack Taylor, devastated by the recent trauma of personal loss, has always believed himself to be beyond salvation. But a new job offers a fresh start, and an unexpected partnership makes him hope that his one desperate vision - of family - might yet be fulfilled. An eerie mix of exorcism, a predatory stalker, and an unlikely attraction conspires to lure him into a murderous web of dark conspiracies. The spectre of a child haunts every waking moment. Bleak, unsettling and totally original, Ken Bruen's writing captures the brooding landscape of Irish society at a time of social and economic upheaval. Here is evidence of an unmistakeable literary talent.

In this mesmerizing work of crime fiction, an ex-member of The Guards--Ireland's police force--is approached in a Galway bar by a dazzling woman with a strange request and a rumor about his talent for finding things.