KEN BRUEN has been a finalist for the Edgar and Anthony Awards, and has won a Macavity Award, a Barry Award, and two Shamus Awards for the Jack Taylor series. He has been an English teacher in Africa, Japan, Southeast Asia, and South America. He lives in Galway, Ireland.
Advance Praise for ONCE WERE COPS:
"An acknowledged master of contemporary noir, Bruen touches all his
usual themes in his trademark clipped postmodern style, a deft
shorthand that enables him to romp at will through genre cliches to
quickly reach deeper and more dangerous depths. No one is safe as
this shocker spins wildly toward a violent finish." --"Publishers
Weekly""Bruen, poster boy for noir, keeps you guessing until the
denouement...An unlovely tale impossible to put down. Readers asked
at year's end to list the nastiest, most violent cop novels of 2008
will certainly remember this one." --"Kirkus Reviews""Shea is an
otherworldly malevolence who makes ONCE WERE COPS a chilling and
deeply creepy read. That Bruen renders such a remarkable character
in what be called clipped free verse is further proof of his
writing talent." --"Booklist""[Shea] is all about in-your-face
provocation. So is Bruen in this stand-alone thriller. Suggested
for public libraries as an example of first-rate nouvelle cuisine a
la noir." --"Library Journal"
Advance Praise for ONCE WERE COPS:
"An acknowledged master of contemporary noir, Bruen touches all his
usual themes in his trademark clipped postmodern style, a deft
shorthand that enables him to romp at will through genre cliches to
quickly reach deeper and more dangerous depths. No one is safe as
this shocker spins wildly toward a violent finish." --"Publishers
Weekly""Bruen, poster boy for noir, keeps you guessing until the
denouement...An unlovely tale impossible to put down. Readers asked
at year's end to list the nastiest, most violent cop novels of 2008
will certainly remember this one." --"Kirkus Reviews""Shea is an
otherworldly malevolence who makes ONCE WERE COPS a chilling and
deeply creepy read. That Bruen renders such a remarkable character
in what be called clipped free verse is further proof of his
writing talent." --"Booklist""[Shea] is all about in-your-face
provocation. So is Bruen in this stand-alone thriller. Suggested
for public libraries as ana
Advance Praise for ONCE WERE COPS:
"An acknowledged master of contemporary noir, Bruen touches all his
usual themes in his trademark clipped postmodern style, a deft
shorthand that enables him to romp at will through genre cliches to
quickly reach deeper and more dangerous depths. No one is safe as
this shocker spins wildly toward a violent finish." --"Publishers
Weekly""Bruen, poster boy for noir, keeps you guessing until the
denouement...An unlovely tale impossible to put down. Readers asked
at year's end to list the nastiest, most violent cop novels of 2008
will certainly remember this one." --"Kirkus Reviews""Shea is an
otherworldly malevolence who makes ONCE WERE COPS a chilling and
deeply creepy read. That Bruen renders such a remarkable character
in what be called clipped free verse is further proof of his
writing talent." --"Booklist""[Shea] is all about in-your-face
provocation. So is Bruen in this stand-alone thriller. Suggested
for public libraries as an example of first-rate nouvelle cuisine a
la noir." --"Library Journal"
Praise for Ken Bruen: "Ken Bruen is hard to resist, with his aching
Irish heart, silvery tongue, and bleak noir sensibility...[Bruen]
writes with extraordinary delicacy." --Marilyn Stasio, "The New
York Times Book Review""Bruen exploits the dark potential of the
mystery form to its fullest." -"Washington"" Post Book
World""Dazzling. Bruen's style is clipped, caustic, heartbreaking,
and often hilarious."--"Cleveland Plain Dealer""Bruen is a
brilliant, lyrical, deeply moving writer who can make you laugh and
cry in the same paragraph and whose characters are so sharply
portrayed that they almost walk off the page at you. If you like
Ian Rankin, Dennis Lehane, George Pelecanos, and the like, Bruen is
definitely a writer to reckon with." --"The Denver Post""Bruen's
furious, hard-boiled prose, chopped down to its trademark essence,
never fails to astonish....among the finest noir stylists of his
generation." --"Publishers Weekly" (starred review)"Bruen's
tommy-gun prose, lacerating dialogue, and hard-boiled worldview
combine to provide entertainment of high order in dealing with low
instincts." --"New York"" Daily News""The next major new Irish
voice we hear might well belong to Ken Bruen." --"Chicago""
Tribune""Bracing, eccentric, hard-boiled, unforgettable." --"New
Orleans"" Times-Picayune""Spare and unforgiving, Bruen's novels are
among the best." --"Rocky Mountain News""Bruen has established
himself as a master of hard-boiled noir." "--Miami Herald"
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