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A boy has been crucified in Galway city.
People are shocked; the broadsheets debate what this says about the state of the nation; the Irish Church is scandalised.
No further action is taken.
When the sister of the murdered boy is burned alive, PI Jack Taylor decides to take matters into his owns hands.
Taylor's investigations lead him to some old city haunts where he encounters ghosts- living and dead. But what he eventually finds surpasses even his darkest imaginings...
About the Author
Ken Bruen was born in Galway. Having spent 25 years as an English teacher in Africa, Japan, South East Asia and South America, he now lives in Galway city with his wife and daughter. Priest, the fifth novel in the Jack Taylor series, is available in Corgi paperback.
Galway private eye Jack Taylor must catch a psychopath who kills by crucifying.On the prowl for a really bad person, Taylor tries to kick some bad habits while kicking himself for having some bad timing. Long a substance abuser, he's chosen to get clean the hard way, going cold turkey, and it's half killing him. And it's not just the booze, the pills and the smokes that are getting him down; it's all that extra gloom and doom suddenly burdening his life, which on the best day was never a thing of joy. An American kid Taylor loved almost as a son is hospitalized, comatose, his chances for recovery slim to none. Taylor's cop friend has a lump on her breast that terrifies both of them. And Taylor's decision to help an alcoholic ex-cop spawns dire consequences. Yet when he's asked to stop a sadistic killer whose hatred seems at once random and focused, he can't back away. As one character says of Taylor: "Bottom line, you're that rarity, you're a decent human being more flawed than most, but you're not cold."Though Bruen (Priest, 2007, etc.) sometimes nudges noir into bathos, this is dark-side stuff from a master. (Kirkus Reviews)
ISBN: 9780593055137
ISBN-10: 0593055136
Series: Jack Taylor Ser.
Audience:
General
Format:
Paperback
Language:
English
Number Of Pages: 288
Published: 2nd April 2007
Dimensions (cm): 23.500 x 15.600
x 2.300
Weight (kg): 0.382
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