A terrific read from a writer called "a Celtic Dashiell Hammett," Headstone is an excellent addition to the Jack Taylor series. In a moment of awful clarity, Jack realizes that not only might he be powerless to stop Headstone he may not have the grit needed to even face it. A special needs boy is brutally attacked. An elderly priest is viciously beaten until nearly dead. Headstone barrels along its deadly path right to the center of his life and the heart of Galway. Jack Taylor has encountered most of them but nothing before has ever truly terrified him until a group called Headstone rears its ugly head. Jack, slowly accepting the sheer power of Headstone, comes to realize that in order to fight back he must relinquish the remaining shreds of what has made him human. And Jack is especially vulnerable now that he has finally found love and happiness. But nothing before has ever truly terrified him until he confronts an evil coterie named Headstone, who have committed a series of random, insane, violent crimes in Galway, Ireland that leave even the national police shaken. Evil has many guises and Jack Taylor has encountered most of them, and has the scars to prove it. In Headstone, an elderly priest is nearly beaten to death and a special-needs boy is brutally attacked. That the plot is a tad cartoonish and over-the-top scarcely matters in a remarkable series that at heart is about one man's reckoning with a lifetime of pain and loss in a rapidly changing Ireland.Acclaimed Irish crime writer Ken Bruen has won numerous awards for his hard-charging, dark thrillers, which have been translated into ten languages. Now they have their sights set on Taylor and everyone close to him. Of course, moments of grace are fleeting in Bruen's world, and things rapidly head south after Taylor receives a miniature gravestone in the post, courtesy of a group of psychopaths calling themselves "Headstone." Led by a fanatic recidivist criminal from a previous Taylor case, they target the "weak," including the handicapped, the mentally ill, and the homeless. For once, however, Taylor appears to have found a promising love interest in Laura, an American-born crime novelist, with whom he's recently enjoyed a romantic idyll in Paris. Acclaimed Irish crime writer Ken Bruen has won numerous awards for his h. Irish author Bruen's hard-hitting ninth Jack Taylor novel (after The Devil) finds the Galway PI coping with alcoholism, a permanent limp, hearing loss, and emotional scars that continually threaten to take him down. Read 132 reviews from the worlds largest community for readers.
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