Headstone
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  • Published: 12 April 2012
  • ISBN: 9781446487136
  • Imprint: Transworld Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 336

Headstone

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12 Apr 2012
Audiobook
17 May 2012
Paperback
15 Apr 2013
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The new novel in the award-winning Jack Taylor series by Ireland's most acclaimed crime writer.

Some people help the less fortunate. Others kill them.

Evil has many guises. Jack Taylor has encountered most of them but nothing before has ever truly terrified him until a group called Headstone rears its ugly head. An elderly priest is viciously beaten until nearly dead. A special needs boy is brutally attacked. A series of seemingly random, insane, violent events even has the Guards shaken.

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.

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.

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.
  • Published: 12 April 2012
  • ISBN: 9781446487136
  • Imprint: Transworld Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 336
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About the author

Ken Bruen

Ken Bruen was born in Galway. He spent 25 years as an English teacher in Africa, Japan, South East Asia and South America, and holds a doctorate in metaphysics.

His earlier Jack Taylor novels are published by Brandon Press in Ireland and have won numerous awards including the Shamus and the Macavity Awards.

He now lives in Galway city with his wife and daughter.

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Praise for Headstone

Hard hitting... a remarkable series

Publishers Weekly

Headstone is an excellent addition to the Jack Taylor series

Philadelphia Inquirer

Ken Bruen is brilliant. While Headstone is the stuff of nightmares, it is also the stuff of redemption, even at great cost. You will feel wrung out after reading this one, but all the gladder for it

Bookreporter

Headstone is one of the year's best reading pleasures

David J. Montgomery, Crime Fiction Dossier

Bruen is threatening to become a mass cult figure in the US as well as a critical favourite

Allen Barra, The Atlantic

A nonstop rampage of intrigue, mayhem, lunacy and dark-dark-dark humour

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