Vorab-RezensentenKen Bruen

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Green HellSchnellansicht
Hörbuch, digital
Reihen: Jack Taylor (11)
Ireland’s lyrical master of crime fiction spins a new alcohol-fueled Jack Taylor plot, featuring a Rhodes scholar gone astray, a professor with a violent streak, and a young woman who might be more unstable than Jack The award-winning crime writer Ken Bruen, called “a master of hard-boiled noir” by the Miami Herald, is as joyously unapologetic in his writing as he is wickedly poetic. In the new Jack Taylor novel, Green Hell, Bruen’s dark angel of a protagonist has hit rock bottom: one of his best friends is dead and the other has stopped speaking to him; he has given up battling his addiction to alcohol and other substances; and his firing from the Irish national police is by now ancient history. But Jack isn’t about to embark on a self-improvement plan. Instead, he has taken up a vigilante case against a respected professor of literature at the University of Galway who has developed a savage habit his friends in high places are only too happy to ignore. One late spring day, Jack rescues a preppy American student from a couple of kid thugs with baseball bats and unexpectedly gains a new sidekick. The student, in Galway on a Rhodes scholarship, abandons his treatise on Beckett and instead devotes himself to slinging back shots of Jameson and writing a biography of Galway’s most magnetic rogue. Between pub crawls and violent outbursts, Jack’s vengeful plot against the professor soon spirals towards chaos, putting both himself and the student in danger. Enter Emerald, an edgy young goth who could either be the answer to Jack’s problems, or the last ripped stitch in his undoing. Ireland may be known as a “green Eden,” but in Jack Taylor’s world, the national color has a decidedly lethal sheen.
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Hörbuch, digital
Genres
General Fiction, Mystery, Fiction and Literature
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