Still stinging from his ouster from the Garda Siochana, and staring at the world through the smoky bottom of his beer mug, Jack Taylor is stuck in Galway with nothing to look forward to....

Once again, trouble comes to Jack Taylor - this time in the form of a wealthy Frenchman who wants Jack to investigate the double-murder of his twin sons....

Jack Taylor, a disgraced ex-cop in Galway, has slid further down the slope of despair. After a year in London he returns to his home town of Galway with a leather coat and a coke habit.....

The impossible has happened: Jack Taylor is living clean and dating a mature woman. Rumour suggests he is even attending mass....

Jack Taylor, traumatised, bitter and hurting from his last case, has resolved to give up the finding business. However, he owes the local hard man a debt of honour....

Jack Taylor thinks he has a chance at last to rest and heal from the myriad mental and physical traumas that beset him....

Jack Taylor has hit rock bottom: one of his best friends is dead, the other has stopped speaking to him; he has given up battling his addiction to alcohol and pills; and he's been fired from the Irish national police....

As well-versed in politics, pop culture, and crime fiction as he is ill-fated in life, Jack Taylor is recovering from a mistaken medical diagnosis and a failed suicide attempt....

America - the land of opportunity, a place where economic prosperity beckons....

Acclaimed Irish crime writer Ken Bruen has won numerous awards for his hard-charging, dark thrillers, which have been translated into ten languages.....