Author: Ken Bruen Publisher: Do Not Press ISBN: 9781899344222 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 152
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"Fans of Bruen...will enjoy seeing the Keystone Crooks get picked off one by one." - Kirkus Reviews. Brady, our narrator, Is fifty, gay, and a manic-depressive professional criminal of Irish descent, strung out on lithium and excessive drinking. Tod
Author: Ken Bruen Publisher: ISBN: 9782213628172 Category : Languages : fr Pages : 252
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" Brady est grave barré. " Il l'a écrit en gros sur le mur de sa chambre, et c'est de lui-même qu'il parle. Il a fait de fréquents séjours en prison ou en centre de désintoxication, pour se débarrasser de ses multiples dépendances. Il passe aussi du temps à ferrailler avec des psys intéressés par son cas : drogué, alcoolique, associal, agressif et homosexuel déclaré. Il est rendu à la vie civile depuis peu, et sous lithium, lorsque le contacte Jack Dunphy, un promoteur immobilier, personnage à la fois ridicule et terrifiant qui fait une fixation sur l'acteur Gene Hackman, voué aux rôles de durs, auxquels il se réfère constamment. Brady doit retrouver sa fille et enquête avec son copain Reed, un ancien compagnon de cellule rasta. La jeune Rozaleen (" Roz ") a fugué à Brixton, le quartier jamaïcain de Londres, où elle est tombée sous la coupe de Léon, redoutable caïd local et proxénète. Comme tous les héros de Ken Bruen, Brady est aussi un grand lecteur, et ce roman, découpé en chapitres brefs, secs et percutants, est un mix radical de culture littéraire, de poésie, d'ultra violence et d'esprit rock, avec une bonne dose d'humour cruel et ravageur.
Author: Ken Bruen Publisher: ISBN: 9782757806975 Category : Fiction Languages : fr Pages : 252
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Jack Dunphy, riche promoteur immobilier, demande à Brady de retrouver sa fille, Roz. Le détective privé, tout juste sorti d'une cure de désintoxication, découvre qu'elle vit sous la coupe d'un proxénète dans le quartier jamaïcain de Londres. Aidé de deux comparses, peu recommandables, Brady monte un plan pour enlever Roz. Mais à vouloir doubler tout le monde, la fine équipe va mal finir...
Author: Jake Horsley Publisher: Scarecrow Press ISBN: 9780810836709 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 516
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Increasingly, society questions the connection between violence in entertainment and violence in life. Moralists and censors would reply resoundingly that media violence and social violence are directly linked, but others ask the deeper question: Why do people feel the need to create images of violence, and why do audiences continually watch them? In this thought-provoking and insightful study of American violent cinema, author Jake Horsley attempts to answer these questions by tying together the multiple disciplines of psychology, criminology, censorship, and anthropology. Horsley divides the forty years of his study into two volumes: American Chaos: From Touch of Evil to The Terminator, and Millennial Blues: From Apocalypse Now to The Matrix. These volumes aim to provide both a critical overview of the films themselves and a cultural study of the social and psychological factors relating to the demand for screen violence. By doing so, Horsley raises a new dialogue between scholars and movie buffs to examine the need to portray and the need to watch violent films.
Author: Ken Bruen Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic ISBN: 0802189695 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 249
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An Irish crime novel featuring ex-cop Jack Taylor from an author “among the most original and innovative noir voices of the last two decades” (Los Angeles Review of Books). In The Emerald Lie, the latest terror to be visited upon the dark Galway streets arrives in a most unusual form: a Cambridge graduate who becomes murderous over split infinitives, dangling modifiers, and any other sign of bad grammar. Meanwhile, Jack is approached by a grieving father with a pocketful of cash on offer if Jack will help exact revenge on those responsible for his daughter’s brutal rape and murder. Though hesitant to get involved, Jack agrees to get a read on the likely perpetrators. But Jack is soon derailed by the reappearance of Emily (previous alias: Emerald), the chameleon-like young woman who joined forces with Jack to take down her pedophile father in Green Hell and who remains passionate, clever, and utterly homicidal. She will use any sort of coercion to get Jack to conspire with her against the serial killer the Garda have nicknamed “the Grammarian,” but her most destructive obsession just might be Jack himself. “Nobody writes like Ken Bruen, with his ear for lilting Irish prose and his taste for the kind of gallows humor heard only at the foot of the gallows.” —Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review
Author: Ken Bruen Publisher: Macmillan ISBN: 1429986565 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 123
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When a letter containing a list of victims arrives in the post, P.I. Jack Taylor tells himself that it's got nothing to do with him. He has enough to do just staying sane. His close friend Ridge is recovering from surgery, and alcohol's siren song is calling to him ever more insistently. A guard and then a judge die in mysterious circumstances. 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. What he doesn't know is that his relationship with the killer is far closer than he thinks. And it's about to become deeply personal. Spiked with dark humor, and fueled with rage at man's inhumanity to man, Ken Bruen's Sanctuary is crime writing at its darkest and most original.
Author: Ken Bruen Publisher: Minotaur Books ISBN: 1429902337 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 305
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Still stinging from his unceremonious ouster from the Garda Síochána—the Guards, Ireland's police force—and staring at the world through the smoky bottom of his beer mug, Jack Taylor is stuck in Galway with nothing to look forward to. In his sober moments Jack aspires to become Ireland's best private investigator, not to mention its first—Irish history, full of betrayal and espionage, discourages any profession so closely related to informing. But in truth Jack is teetering on the brink of his life's sharpest edges, his memories of the past cutting deep into his soul and his prospects for the future nonexistent. Nonexistent, that is, until a dazzling woman walks into the bar with a strange request and a rumor about Jack's talent for finding things. Odds are he won't be able to climb off his barstool long enough to get involved with his radiant new client, but when he surprises himself by getting hired, Jack has little idea of what he's getting into. Stark, violent, sharp, and funny, The Guards is an exceptional novel, one that leaves you stunned and breathless, flipping back to the beginning in a mad dash to find Jack Taylor and enter his world all over again. It's an unforgettable story that's gritty, absorbing, and saturated with the rough-edged rhythms of the Galway streets. Praised by authors and critics around the globe, The Guards heralds the arrival of an essential new novelist in contemporary crime fiction. Ken Bruen's The Guards is a 2004 Edgar Award Nominee for Best Novel.
Author: Ken Bruen Publisher: Minotaur Books ISBN: 1429965002 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 301
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In the next book in Ken Bruen's legendary private investigator series, Jack Taylor faces his most challenging opponent yet in this noir masterpiece, The Devil. America—the land of opportunity, a place where economic prosperity beckons: but not for PI Jack Taylor, who's just been refused entry. Disappointed and bitter, he thinks that an encounter with an overly friendly stranger in an airport bar is the least of his problems. Except that this stranger seems to know much more than he should about Jack. Jack thinks no more of their meeting and resumes his old life in Galway. But when he's called to investigate a student murder—connected to an elusive Mr. K—he remembers the man from the airport. Is the stranger really who he says he is? Jack struggles to make sense of it all, and the Jameson isn't helping. After several more murders and too many coincidental encounters, Jack believes he may have met his nemesis. But why has he been chosen? And could he really have taken on the devil himself? Suspenseful, haunting, and totally unique, The Devil is Bruen at his very best.
Author: David Geherin Publisher: McFarland ISBN: 0786461691 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 199
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The enormous popularity of Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy has raised awareness of other contemporary European authors of crime fiction. As a result, several of these novelists now reach a receptive American audience, eager for fresh perspectives in the genre. This critical text offers an introduction to current European crime writing by exploring ten of the best new crime nd mystery authors from Sweden (Stieg Larsson and Henning Mankell), Norway (Karin Fossum and Jo Nesbo), Iceland (Arnaldur Indridason), Italy (Andrea Camilleri), France (Fred Vargas), Scotland (Denise Mina and Philip Kerr), and Ireland (Ken Bruen), who are reshaping the landscape of the modern crime novel. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.
Author: Ken Bruen
Author: Ken Bruen
Author: Ken Bruen
Author: Jake Horsley
Author: Ken Bruen
Author: Ken Bruen
Author: Ken Bruen
Author: Ken Bruen
Author: Ken Bruen
Author: David Geherin