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Ken Bruen. (2013). Purgatory. Grove Atlantic.

Ken Bruen. 2013. Purgatory. Grove Atlantic.

Ken Bruen, Purgatory. Grove Atlantic, 2013.

Ken Bruen. Purgatory. Grove Atlantic, 2013.

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     Ken Bruen (b. 1951) is one of the most prominent Irish crime writers of the last two decades. Born in Galway, he spent twenty-five years traveling the world before he began writing in the mid 1990s. As an English teacher, Bruen worked in South Africa, Japan, and South America, where he once spent a short time in a Brazilian jail. He has two long-running series: one starring a disgraced former policeman named Jack Taylor, the other a London police detective named Inspector Brant. Praised for their sharp insight into the darker side of today’s prosperous Ireland, Bruen’s novels are marked by grim atmosphere and clipped prose. Among the best known are his White Trilogy (1998–2000) and The Guards (2001), the Shamus award-winning first novel in the Jack Taylor series. Bruen continues to live and work in Galway.
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An Irish ex-cop is lured into a violent game by a vengeful killer in this “excellent” crime novel by an Edgar Award finalist (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
 
Former cop Jack Taylor is recovering from mental and physical wounds, as well as from addictions to a variety of substances. But this fragile existence is threatened when a vigilante begins targeting the scum of Galway, signing mysterious notes with the moniker “C33.” The murderer addresses these cryptic letters to Jack, trying to goad him into joining the violent spree.
While Jack tries to unravel the mystery and motives of this demented killer, he’s also brought into the fold of an enigmatic tech billionaire who has been buying up massive amounts of property in Galway, seemingly in the hopes of offering this downtrodden city a better future. Yet if Jack has learned one thing living in Ireland, it's that people who outwardly claim to be on the side of righteousness are likely harboring far more nefarious motives beneath the surface.
With the help of his friends, a former drug dealer-turned-zen master and a dogged police sergeant, Jack is determined to track down C33, even if it jeopardizes his livelihood, his friends, and the remaining shreds of his sanity…
 
“Noir fans will find what they love here.”—Booklist (starred review)

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   • source: New York Times Book Review
   • content: “The things Jack witnesses these days . . . would cause a saint to go blind. And Jack, whose heroism is fueled by 'plain old-fashioned rage, bile and bitterness,' is no saint. Never was, never will be. Amen."
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   • source: Publishers Weekly (starred review)
   • content: “Excellent. . . . Bruen maintains his trademark hip references and highly poetic style, but fans expecting the usual are in for some shock therapy, as he busts out one series-changing surprise after another."
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   • source: Booklist (starred review)
   • content: “Bruen's storytelling style, a stream-of-consciousness mix of prose and verse, strips away Galway's tourist-board façade and offers a darkly comic social commentary. . . . Noir fans will find what they love here."
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   • source: Shelf Awareness
   • content: “Bruen is an Irish treasure, holding his own in a line of literary giants including Joyce, Yeats, Wilde and Beckett. . . . Purgatory may be the best of the Jack Taylor series."
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   • source: BookPage
   • content: “Another fine installment in the series that defines Irish noir."
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   • source: Santa Barbara Independent
   • content: “There's an explosion of talent coming out of Ireland in the detective genre right now, and Bruen is a major player in that scene . . . Full of mayhem, Galway lore, and deft literary allusions, as befits an author with a PhD in metaphysics. Bruen's staccato, telegraphic style sometimes looks like poetry on the page, but don't be fooled; his rhetorical moves are closer to the sweet science of the boxing ring than they are to the song forms of verse."
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   • source: Huntington News
   • content: “Strangely poetic. Bruen uses the automatic weapon's staccato burst writing style, lacing it with current event allusions."
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   • source: Strand Magazine
   • content: “One of the most sublime pleasures in crime fiction is reading a new book by Ken Bruen. For almost twenty years now, he's been delighting mystery and noir audiences with his stunning, poetic books of the shadowy side of life. . . . Purgatory is one of the darkest books yet. . . . This is real writing, the likes of which we are blessed to behold."
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   • source: Mystery Scene
   • content: “Gleefully profane and joyfully blasphemous, the prose in Ken Bruen's Jack Taylor books is so unapologetically lyrical and right that it fooking hurts. . . . No matter how black Bruen paints it, there is also an unabashed celebration of life here. To read these books is to fly."
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    • source: Bookreporter.com
    • content: “Bruen is as quietly unflinching and honest an author as you are likely to encounter. . . . Everybody should read Purgatory and every other word he has ever written."
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    • source: International Noir Fiction
    • content: “The Taylor books are the pinnacle of Bruen's offhand but bleakly poetic style. . . . Bruen and Taylor are very much of this moment, in terms of popular culture, crime fiction, Irish history, and global politics."
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    • source: Criminal Element
    • content: “[Purgatory] well-captures the flavor of the time."
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    • source: Avid Mystery Reader
    • content: "Entertaining."
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    • source: Hilary Davidson, Dark Voyage
    • content: "Ken Bruen is an exceptional writer. . . . [He] writes some of the darkest, leanest prose you'll ever encounter."
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    • source: The Independent (Ireland)
    • content: "Ken Bruen might be the best-kept literary secret in Ireland."
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    • content: "[Bruen's] fast-paced and hard-boiled action novels will appeal to those looking for gripping crime fiction."
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      Starred review from September 2, 2013
      Edgar-finalist Bruen’s excellent 10th Jack Taylor novel (after 2011’s Headstone) finds the Irish PI looking upon the sights of Galway with now-sober if ever-wistful eyes—but a serial killer wants him to come out and play. Signing invitations to Jack as “C33,” the mysterious figure inflicts vigilante justice on other murderers and scumbags. “A Dexter with an Irish lilt... C33 had honed the art of reprisal in the States, an equal killer land of opportunity.” For once, with a possible new woman in his life, Jack isn’t interested, and stays aloof from the crimes, much like a soul lost in purgatory. But when his former drug-dealer friend, Stewart, picks up the challenge, all hell breaks loose. Bruen maintains his trademark hip references and highly poetic style, but fans expecting the usual are in for some shock therapy, as he busts out one series-changing surprise after another. Agent: Lukas Ortiz, Philip G. Spitzer Literary Agency.

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      November 15, 2013
      Galway ex-cop Jack Taylor, whose main job these days is keeping himself clean and sober, goes up against a vigilante whose targets richly deserve to die. You might feel sorry for Joseph, the teenager shot off his skateboard, if you didn't know he was dealing dope to kids even younger than him. But no one mourns the passing of Tim Rourke, the accused rapist who'd be rotting in prison instead of the grave if a dewy-eyed social worker's testimony hadn't freed him to meet his maker. Or Peg Ramsay, the moneylender's widow who's been determined to squeeze her clients even harder than her late lamented husband ever did. Or Dolan, the landlord who neglected to make sure all his tenants had made it out of his properties before he burned them down. Jack wouldn't waste a tear on any of these victims if their killer, calling himself C33, weren't sending notes to Jack (The Devil, 2010, etc.) inviting him to join the festivities. Soon enough, Jack and his mates, Zen-spouting entrepreneur Stewart and lesbian Sgt. Ridge Ni Iomaire, are up to their necks in C33's lethal games. The case brings Jack bumping repeatedly against dot-com billionaire Daniel Reardon, with each new collision producing fresh eruptions of bile--is there an angrier narrator in the genre than Jack?--but precious little in the way of plot development, until the obvious suspect gets identified and does a runner, turning Jack from reluctant detective into nemesis, a role that suits him much better. For all the furious energy of Jack's throwaway riffs, the title of this installment, which would have fit most of Bruen's pitch-noir dispatches equally well, isn't the only thing that feels recycled here.

      COPYRIGHT(2013) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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      Starred review from September 15, 2013
      Unusually flush, sober, and settled into a new apartment stocked to the gills with books, Jack Taylor is no longer entertaining requests to hunt Galway's disappeared, identify the tormenters of its marginalized, or root out authoritarian abusers. But Jack's reputation as the man who'll deliver some manner of truth and justice stands, and he'll not walk away from Galway's darkness easily. C33, a vigilante killing criminals who have escaped legal justice through technicalities, seems to think Jack is a suitable playmate. Dropping Jack a note about the latest killing, C33 identifies the next mark and signs off with, Your turn. Despite the challenge, Jack hopes to avoid jumping back into the mix and sets his ally Stewart on C33's heels. In the meantime, Jack becomes entangled with Reardon, a crazy surfer mogul snatching up parts of Galway. Throughout, Jack's brutal inner voice shouts dire predictions as his attempts to avoid past mistakes lead to disasters for his friends and a hunt for the killer he's foolishly dismissed. Bruen's storytelling style, a stream-of-consciousness mix of prose and verse, strips away Galway's tourist-board facade and offers a darkly comic social commentary. Jack Taylor tales don't end well; that's just not the life our Jack's living. But Bruen always respects his characters, and they end right. Noir fans will find exactly what they love here. Note to RA librarians looking for links: The BBC series Jack, based on the Jack Taylor series, is now available in the U.S., and it's almost as good as the books.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2013, American Library Association.)

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      June 1, 2013
      

      Nine previous titles, a Shamus Award, two feature films, and now this: even as he struggles to maintain his hard-won stability, former cop Jack Taylor must face a vigilante killer wiping out the bad guys of Galway and leaving little missives to Jack signed C 33. Bruen's doctorate in metaphysics adds depth.

      Copyright 2013 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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Former cop Jack Taylor is recovering from mental and physical wounds, as well as from addictions to a variety of substances. But this fragile existence is threatened when a vigilante begins targeting the scum of Galway, signing mysterious notes with the moniker “C33.” The murderer addresses these cryptic letters to Jack, trying to goad him into joining the violent spree.
While Jack tries to unravel the mystery and motives of this demented killer, he’s also brought into the fold of an enigmatic tech billionaire who has been buying up massive amounts of property in Galway, seemingly in the hopes of offering this downtrodden city a better future. Yet if Jack has learned one thing living in Ireland, it's that people who outwardly claim to be on the side...

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