The Killing of the Tinkers (Brandon Originals) [Paperback]

"Irish Writer Ken Bruen is The Finest Purveyor of Intelligent Brit-Noir." The Big Issue

There is something strangely compulsive about turning the pages of The Killing of the Tinkers, Bruen’s twelfth novel.

Ken Bruen’s second Jack Taylor novel upholds his reputation for edgy, intelligent, thriller noirs

The Killing of the Tinkers is not so much a thriller as a raw slice of life.

Irish writer Ken Bruen is the
Jesus.

Jack Taylor, A disgraced ex-cop in Galway, has slid further down the slope of despair. After a year in London he returns to his home town of Galway with a leather coat and a coke habit. Someone is systematically slaughtering young travellers and dumping their bodies in the city centre. Even in the state he's in, Jack Taylor has an uncanny ability to know where to look, what questions to ask, and with the aid of an English policeman, apparently solves the case. Now he stands poised on the precipice of the most devastating decision of his career, while at the same time a rare opportunity of real and enduring love also materialises. As with The Guards, the city of Galway dances, jeers, consoles, threatens, entices, near kills and yet continues to be the ultimate ground of Jack Taylor's transcendence, all he understands of heaven and hell.

Ken Bruen, born in Galway in 1951, is the author of eleven previous novels, including The Guards (2001), the highly acclaimed first Jack Taylor novel. He spent twenty-five years as an English teacher in Africa, Japan, S.E. Asia and South America. His novel Her Last Call to Louis Mac Niece (1997) is in production for Pilgrim Pictures, his "White Trilogy" has been bought by Channel 4, and The Guards is to be filmed in Ireland by De Facto Films. His two Jack Taylor novels have recently been bought for publication in the USA by St Martin's Press, and The Guards will shortly be published in Australia and in translation in several countries