The Dramatist (Jack Taylor)
Sober for once, former guard Jack Taylor is asked by a jailed acquaintance to look into the death of the man's sister. What first looks like an accident becomes a pattern marked by Synge's drama, forcing Jack through Galway's darkness and his own grief.
Work Information
Deaths staged around a play unsettle Jack Taylor's fragile sobriety.
A Jack Taylor novel in which a case linking dead women and a play reaches a hero trying to stay away from drink and drugs. The rough air of Galway, religious shadows, and literary obsession run alongside both the mystery and Jack's collapse.
Review Summaries
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It is read as hard, shadowed crime fiction. The protagonist's self-destructive pull and the clipped prose give the darkness its force.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Minotaur
- Published
- 2007-03-06
- Pages
- 256 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 13.97 x 1.45 x 21.59 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780312363109
- ISBN-10
- 0312363109
- Price
- 3293 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/Mystery & Thrillers/Mystery/Hard-Boiled
A shadowy killer is stalking Galway in The Dramatist , the fourth lean and lethal entry in the critically-acclaimed, award-winning Jack Taylor series from author Ken Bruen. Seems impossible, but Jack Taylor is sober--off booze, pills, powder, and nearly off cigarettes, too. The main reason he's been able to keep clean: his dealer's in jail, which leaves Jack without a source. When that dealer calls him to Dublin and asks a favor in the soiled, sordid visiting room of Mountjoy Prison, Jack wants to tell him to take a flying leap. But he doesn't, can't, because the dealer's sister is dead, and the guards have called it "death by misadventure." The dealer knows that can't be true and begs Jack to have a look, check around, see what he can find out. It's exactly what Jack does, with varying levels of success, to make a living. But he's reluctant, maybe because of who's asking or maybe because of the bad feeling growing in his gut. Never one to give in to bad feelings or common sense, Jack agrees to the favor, though he can't possibly know the shocking, deadly consequences he has set in motion. But he and everyone he holds dear will find out soon, sooner than anyone knows.
Ken Bruen has been a finalist for the Egar, Anthony, and Barry Awards, and has won a Macavity Award and a Shamus Award for the Jack Taylor series. Several of Bruen's novels have been adapted for the screen: The first six Jack Taylor novels were adapted into a television series starring Iain Glen; Blitz was adapted into a movie starring Jason Statham; and London Boulevard was adapted into a film starring Colin Farrell and Keira Knightley. Bruen lives in Galway, Ireland.
Reviews
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As always, great.
Perfect. On time as always.
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Great!
Another fascinating episode in this terrific series of stories. I really like the writing, the plots and the characters. And I do laugh!☺
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Great
Nicely written with great sense of place, and character. I learnt a lot too. Pity it was so short but reading the next one now. Great find
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Dark and bleak
Bruen reaches a new dark abyss in this shattering knife cut of a novel. Taylor is the quintessential soldier with a rotted but noble soul. If you're not shaking and numb by the end of this novel, you are dead already.
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GOOD READ
enjoyable
Related Literary Awards
- Shamus Award Edition 26 (2007) ・award