作品情報
戯曲を残す死が、ジャック・テイラーのかろうじて保たれた平静を崩していく。
ジャック・テイラー・シリーズの一作。酒や薬から距離を置こうとする主人公に、死者と戯曲が結びつく事件が持ち込まれる。都市の荒れた空気、宗教的な影、文学への執着が絡み、探偵小説としての謎と主人公の破滅的な心理が並走する。
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硬質で陰影の濃い犯罪小説として読まれている。主人公の自壊的な魅力と、短く鋭い文体が物語の暗さを押し切る力になっている。
書籍情報
- 出版社
- Minotaur
- 発売日
- 2007-03-06
- ページ数
- 256ページ
- 言語
- 英語
- サイズ
- 13.97 x 1.45 x 21.59 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780312363109
- ISBN-10
- 0312363109
- 価格
- 3293 JPY
- カテゴリ
- 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.
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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
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