Review
"You don't want to meet Jack Taylor in person, but if you're a crime fan, you do want to read every book he features in."- "Irish Times for Priest"
"A compelling portrait of a haunted man." - "Guardian for Cross"
"From the Trade Paperback edition."
--This text refers to the
Mass Market Paperback
edition.
Book Description
Galway PI Jack Taylor is back on another dark, uncompromising road-trip through the underworld of Irish crime.
--This text refers to the
Mass Market Paperback
edition.
Product Description
Two guards; one nun; one judge. 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. 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 that it's about to become deeply personal. Spiked with dark humour, seasoned with acute insights about the perils of urbanisation, and fuelled by rage at man's inhumanity to man, this is crime-writing at its darkest and most original.
From the Back Cover
Two guards; one nun; one judge.
When a letter containing a list of victims arrives in the post, PI Jack Taylor tells himself that it is 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 that it's about to become deeply personal.
Spiked with dark humour, and fuelled with rage at man's inhumanity to man, this is crime-writing at its darkest and most original.
About the Author
Ken Bruen was born in Galway, Ireland. After turning down a place at RADA, and completing a doctorate in Metaphysics, he spent 25 years as an English teacher in Africa, Japan, South East Asia and South America. An unscheduled stint in a Brazilian prizon where he suffered physical and mental abuse spurred him to write, and after a brief spell teaching in London, he returned to Galway, where he now lives with his daughter. Sanctuary is the seventh novel in the award-winning Jack Taylor series.
