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“You don’t want to meet Jack Taylor in person, but if you’re a crime fan, you do want to read every book he features in.”– Irish Times for Priest
“A compelling portrait of a haunted man.” – Guardian for Cross
From the Trade Paperback edition.
“A compelling portrait of a haunted man.” – Guardian for Cross
From the Trade Paperback edition.
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When a letter containing a list of victims arrives in the post, PI Jack Taylor is sickened, but tells himself the list has nothing to do with him. He has enough to do just staying sane. His close friend Ridge is recovering from surgery and alcohol’s siren song is calling to him ever more insistently.
A guard and then a judge die in mysterious circumstances.
But it is not until a child is added to the list that Taylor determines to find the identity of the killer, and put a stop to the killings at any cost.
What he doesn’t know is that his relationship with the killer is far closer than he thinks, and that it’s about to become deeply personal.
Spiked with dark humour, seasoned with acute insights into the perils of urbanization, and fuelled by rage at man’s inhumanity to man, this is crime-writing at its darkest and most original.
From the Trade Paperback edition.
A guard and then a judge die in mysterious circumstances.
But it is not until a child is added to the list that Taylor determines to find the identity of the killer, and put a stop to the killings at any cost.
What he doesn’t know is that his relationship with the killer is far closer than he thinks, and that it’s about to become deeply personal.
Spiked with dark humour, seasoned with acute insights into the perils of urbanization, and fuelled by rage at man’s inhumanity to man, this is crime-writing at its darkest and most original.
From the Trade Paperback edition.
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4.4 out of 5 stars (18 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Brilliant!!, Aug 5 2008
By L. J. Roberts - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Sanctuary (Hardcover)
First Sentence: Dear Mr. Taylor, Please forgive the formality.Jack Taylor has sold his apartment and is ready to head to the US when his friend, Ridge, announces she has malignant breast cancer, so he stays to help her. He then receives the letter stating two guards, one nun, one judge and a child will die and he is to be witness.
His once friend, now enemy, Guarda Superintendent Clancy, doesn't give it any credence, but Jack does follows up, with the help of now-recovered Ridge and other friends.
I begin each new Bruen book afraid the quality won't be has high as the last. I had nothing to fear.
Bruen is not for everyone: Jack is a character you don't necessarily like, but about whom you do care. The story is hard-edged, violent and emotional. The alternating voices of conversational first person and chilling third person is extremely effective.
Bruen's descriptions of the city, observations on the changes prosperity have wrought on Galway, as well as dark humor and sensitivity make him a remarkable writer. The story and writing are spare, brutal, physically and emotionally harsh, tragic and brilliant.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
One of the best (and hopefully not the last!) Jack Taylor novels, Mar 7 2010
By Elizabeth Ray - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Sanctuary: A Novel (Hardcover)
After his move to America is derailed by Ridge's illness, a sober Jack Taylor is pulled back into the investigation game when a religious psycho gives him (and only him) the clues necessary to prevent her murder of a child.This may be my favorite Jack Taylor book yet. The plot is compelling and the pacing is almost thriller-like. There is also a revelation regarding an major event from one of the previous books. As usual, Bruen's sparse prose is full of humor so dry you'd miss it if you weren't paying attention. My only complaint is that despite a visit to his bookseller, this installment offered no new reading recommendations for me.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
Not his best, but anything Bruen writes set a high bar, Aug 2 2009
By Jeff - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Sanctuary (Mass Market Paperback)
I really enjoyed Sanctuary. Like most of the Jack Taylor series, it flies by. The prose is sparse, well constructed, and frequently ironic or sarcastic in the extreme. Bruen's very fond of delivering trenchant observations about what is happening to his beloved Galway. He gets off some of his very best observations of the series in Sanctuary.Another reader has commented that he did not do anything quite so new here in this book as he has in a few others. I'd agree, but he also interjects an element into the series's storyline that is pretty important for future books in the series.
Bruen's quite the fan of the "...nasty, brutish, and short" school of thought on human life. However, the central motif of the whole series is his nearly inchoate rage at how badly humans can treat other humans (and themselves.) Bruen's humanity is in fine shape and this is quite a worthwhile addition to the Jack Taylor canon.
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