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The Devil (2010)

by Ken Bruen(Favorite Author)

3.81 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

1848270194 (ISBN13: 9781848270190)

languge

English

genre

Mystery & Thriller

publisher

Transworld Ireland

series

Jack Taylor

review 1: As always Ken Bruen's Jack Taylor is great to read, two reading sessions at most and you fly through them. I enjoyed reading this one a lot but scored it at four stars because the story solution was not particularly inventive, Jack just shoots th bad guy,. No there is a little more to it than that but not much more. So delighted to have another to read not as satisfied as I was with some of the previous books in the series.
review 2: Jack Taylor is a sad sack one can’t help but love. He is a former member of the Irish Guard who refuses to give up the Guard coat, a recovering alcoholic who seems to only be able to stay clean for six months, and a sometime P.I. whose acerbic rhetoric is cutting but funny as hell. Speaking of hell, Taylor’s latest nemesis ap... morepears to be the devil himself. When Jack is refused entrance to the U.S. because of a prior arrest, he seeks solace at the airport bar. A man known only as Curt/Kurt tries to strike up a conversation. Strangely, Curt appears to know a lot about Jack. But it isn’t until a grieving mother hires Jack to find out who murdered her son, that the name of Mr. K keeps popping up. Too many people Jack encounters meet a fate worse than death after he talks to them. A case like this is when Jack needs to keep his head on straight. Instead, he turns to liquor and keeps popping Xanax to deal with reality. He is Ireland’s answer to Dr. Gregory House (TV’s fabulous House series). He’s always on the verge of self-destruction. Stewart is his somewhat trusty friend, former drug dealer/convict turned zen guru who adds just the right dose of humor to irritate Jack. And Ridge is back, a Guard trying to hide her lesbianism by marrying a wealthy businessman who just happens to being working out a deal with Kurt/Mr. K. The reader is kept guessing at the true identify of Mr. K and wondering whether Jack’s drug use has him hallucinating a little too much. Unfortunately, we will have to wait for Book #9 for answers. Ken Bruen is one of the best writers from across the pond, along with Mo Hayter, Peter James, and Stephen Booth. I am a series reader so if you haven’t read a Jack Taylor book, start with #1. less

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