Ken Bruen has been a finalist for the Egar, Anthony, and Barry Awards, and has won a Macavity Award and a Shamus Award for the Jack Taylor series. Several of Bruen's novels have been adapted for the screen: The first six Jack Taylor novels were adapted into a television series starring Iain Glen; Blitz was adapted into a movie starring Jason Statham; and London Boulevard was adapted into a film starring Colin Farrell and Keira Knightley. Bruen lives in Galway, Ireland.
"Ken Bruen is hard to resist, with his aching Irish heart, silvery tongue and bleak noir sensibility...[Bruen] writes with extraordinary delicacy about a man driven to acts of violence out of wild grief and fierce sense of guilt." --Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review "[Bruen's] Jack Taylor series is Grade-A Galway Noir...Bruen provides an insightful tour of a fast-changing Ireland" --Richard Lipez, The Washington Post "Bruen's tommy-gun prose, lacerating dialogue and hard-boiled world view combine here, as before, to provide entertainment of high order in dealing with low instincts. Forget all gauzy notions of the Emerald Isle--this stuff is black Irish." --Ron Givens, New York Daily News "Bruen's books are always well worth the effort." --Harper Barnes, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch "It's Taylor himself, dangerous, disgraced cop, that we want to read about....If you haven't discovered Bruen yet, what are you waiting for?" --Jane Dickinson, Rocky Mountain News "You'll want to pray at the stunning conclusions of The Dramatist...Bruen's talent shines." --Michelle Ross, Cleveland Plain Dealer "The same great mix of curmudgeonly observations and unpredictable cultural references that has won Bruen a devoted cadre of fans." --Booklist "There is a darkness about Bruen's Ireland that never lifts. The spare writing is brutal in its depiction of modern depression, social malaise, and total lack of hope." --Library Journal
"Ken Bruen is hard to resist, with his aching Irish heart, silvery tongue and bleak noir sensibility...[Bruen] writes with extraordinary delicacy about a man driven to acts of violence out of wild grief and fierce sense of guilt." --Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review "[Bruen's] Jack Taylor series is Grade-A Galway Noir...Bruen provides an insightful tour of a fast-changing Ireland" --Richard Lipez, The Washington Post "Bruen's tommy-gun prose, lacerating dialogue and hard-boiled world view combine here, as before, to provide entertainment of high order in dealing with low instincts. Forget all gauzy notions of the Emerald Isle--this stuff is black Irish." --Ron Givens, New York Daily News "Bruen's books are always well worth the effort." --Harper Barnes, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch "It's Taylor himself, dangerous, disgraced cop, that we want to read about....If you haven't discovered Bruen yet, what are you waiting for?" --Jane Dickinson, Rocky Mountain News "You'll want to pray at the stunning conclusions of The Dramatist...Bruen's talent shines." --Michelle Ross, Cleveland Plain Dealer "The same great mix of curmudgeonly observations and unpredictable cultural references that has won Bruen a devoted cadre of fans." --Booklist "There is a darkness about Bruen's Ireland that never lifts. The spare writing is brutal in its depiction of modern depression, social malaise, and total lack of hope." --Library Journal
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