Jack Taylor (5 books in series)
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review 1: All of Ken Bruen's books featuring Galway private investigator Jack Taylor are a joy to read, because they are entertaining, brief and written in a breezy Elmore Leonard-style that is a mash-up of noir and Irish verse, with the names and lyrics of Irish and American rock stars na...
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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 mo...
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review 1: Ken Bruen's Jack Taylor novels are not for the faint of heart or for people that drive cars sporting bumper stickers with smiley faces (or Zen-like quotes for that matter). Bruen's anti-hero, Jack Taylor, is darker than a cloudy night in the Maine woods. Smiley faces are what yo...
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review 1: Jack returns to form, getting duped on a case and the outcome is a dead priest who does not deserve to be dead. He gets duped elsewhere and as a result, he crosses his own lines, does something he would never have done, no matter how low he sank. But in between his terrible mista...
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review 1: This is the first book I've read of this series and probably the last. There is a lot going on, it is packed with characters with complicated histories and connections between them. The book is good at keeping suspense, but the plot and the characters aren't very original. The ma...