Ken Bruen

Book Review: “Galway Confidential” — Amidst the Castaways

March 14, 2024
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At a time when it seems as if the world is spinning out of control, steeped in anonymous violence, a Jack Taylor novel provides a front and center opportunity to contemplate doing something about the issues in our own backyard.

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Book Review: Ken Bruen’s “A Galway Epiphany” — A Vision of Exhaustion

December 2, 2020
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Jack Taylor’s awareness of his own depleted condition is part of A Galway Epiphany’s Beckett-infused drama.

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Book Review: “Galway Girl” — Anarchic Fury

November 24, 2019
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Jack Taylor has always been a version of the reluctant detective, but now he seems more impotent than ever — distracted, beat down, and very tired.

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Book Review: “In the Galway Silence” — Another Tour of Hell

December 15, 2018
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Jack Taylor’s world is very much our world and his despair is our despair.

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Book Review: “The Ghosts of Galway” — Fighting an Irish ISIS

February 4, 2018
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Jack Taylor is a Beckettian character on the skids; he can’t go on, and yet he goes on.

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