Irish author Bruens hard-hitting ninth Jack Taylor novel (after The. With awful clarity, Jack knows that not only might he be powerless to stop it but that he may not have the grit needed to even face it. Grove Atlantic/Mysterious, 24 (240p) ISBN 978-0-8021-2600-9. 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. Most would see a headstone as a marker of the dead, but this coterie of evil intends to act as a death knell to every aspect of Jack's life as an act of appalling violence alerts him to the horror enveloping Galway. A series of seemingly random, insane, violent events even has the Guards shaken. A special-needs boy is brutally attacked. Review: Thrillers: Headstone by Ken Bruen Transworld Ireland,12.99, pbk, 336 pages Available withfree P&P onor bycalling 091 709350 Sun at 07:00 Suddenly Ken Bruen.

Born in Galway, he spent twenty-five years traveling the world. An elderly priest is viciously beaten until nearly dead. 1951) is one of the most prominent Irish crime writers of the last two decades. Jack Taylor has encountered most of them but nothing before has ever truly terrified him until a group called Headstone rears its ugly head. Created by Irish writer Ken Bruen, the private investigator Jack Taylor is a disgraced former police officer, an alcoholic, and a drug abuser.