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Download or read book The Hackman Blues written by Ken Bruen and published by Do Not Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Fans of Bruen...will enjoy seeing the Keystone Crooks get picked off one by one." - Kirkus Reviews. Brady, our narrator, Is fifty, gay, and a manic-depressive professional criminal of Irish descent, strung out on lithium and excessive drinking. Tod
Download or read book Hackman Blues written by Ken Bruen and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " Brady est grave barré. " Il l'a écrit en gros sur le mur de sa chambre, et c'est de lui-même qu'il parle. Il a fait de fréquents séjours en prison ou en centre de désintoxication, pour se débarrasser de ses multiples dépendances. Il passe aussi du temps à ferrailler avec des psys intéressés par son cas : drogué, alcoolique, associal, agressif et homosexuel déclaré. Il est rendu à la vie civile depuis peu, et sous lithium, lorsque le contacte Jack Dunphy, un promoteur immobilier, personnage à la fois ridicule et terrifiant qui fait une fixation sur l'acteur Gene Hackman, voué aux rôles de durs, auxquels il se réfère constamment. Brady doit retrouver sa fille et enquête avec son copain Reed, un ancien compagnon de cellule rasta. La jeune Rozaleen (" Roz ") a fugué à Brixton, le quartier jamaïcain de Londres, où elle est tombée sous la coupe de Léon, redoutable caïd local et proxénète. Comme tous les héros de Ken Bruen, Brady est aussi un grand lecteur, et ce roman, découpé en chapitres brefs, secs et percutants, est un mix radical de culture littéraire, de poésie, d'ultra violence et d'esprit rock, avec une bonne dose d'humour cruel et ravageur.
Download or read book Hackman Blues written by Ken Bruen and published by . This book was released on 2008-05 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jack Dunphy, riche promoteur immobilier, demande à Brady de retrouver sa fille, Roz. Le détective privé, tout juste sorti d'une cure de désintoxication, découvre qu'elle vit sous la coupe d'un proxénète dans le quartier jamaïcain de Londres. Aidé de deux comparses, peu recommandables, Brady monte un plan pour enlever Roz. Mais à vouloir doubler tout le monde, la fine équipe va mal finir...
Book Synopsis The Blood Poets: Millennial blues : from Apocalypse now to The matrix by : Jake Horsley
Download or read book The Blood Poets: Millennial blues : from Apocalypse now to The matrix written by Jake Horsley and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Increasingly, society questions the connection between violence in entertainment and violence in life. Moralists and censors would reply resoundingly that media violence and social violence are directly linked, but others ask the deeper question: Why do people feel the need to create images of violence, and why do audiences continually watch them? In this thought-provoking and insightful study of American violent cinema, author Jake Horsley attempts to answer these questions by tying together the multiple disciplines of psychology, criminology, censorship, and anthropology. Horsley divides the forty years of his study into two volumes: American Chaos: From Touch of Evil to The Terminator, and Millennial Blues: From Apocalypse Now to The Matrix. These volumes aim to provide both a critical overview of the films themselves and a cultural study of the social and psychological factors relating to the demand for screen violence. By doing so, Horsley raises a new dialogue between scholars and movie buffs to examine the need to portray and the need to watch violent films.
Book Synopsis The Intelligible Metropolis by : Nora Pleßke
Download or read book The Intelligible Metropolis written by Nora Pleßke and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2014-08-31 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writings on the metropolis generally foreground illimitability, stressing thereby that the urban ultimately remains both illegible and unintelligible. Instead, the purpose of this interdisciplinary study is to demonstrate that mentality as a tool offers orientation in the urban realm. Nora Pleßke develops a model of urban mentality to be employed for cities worldwide. Against the background of the Spatial Turn, she identifies dominant urban-specific structures of London mentality in contemporary London novels, such as Monica Ali's »Brick Lane«, J.G. Ballard's »Millennium People«, Nick Hornby's »A Long Way Down«, and Ian McEwan's »Saturday«.
Download or read book A Fifth of Bruen written by Ken Bruen and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2017-02-28 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of novellas and stories from Shamus Award winner Ken Bruen, author of the Jack Taylor series and the “godfather of the modern Irish crime novel” (The Irish Times). An Irishman with an ebullient love of life draws inspiration from the literature and poetry of death. A born loser with an “ex-wife, an ex-child, and no excuses” accompanies his alcoholic brother on a startling plunge into liberating despair. A self-styled vigilante avenges the death of his wife and child by waging a one-man war against the London underworld. A whiskey-sotted cleric sets out to battle his sexual demons with a resolve that borders on the malevolent. “Nobody writes like Ken Bruen,” says the New York Times Book Review, and here, the author of The Emerald Lie and The Guards offers a taste of his wide-ranging skills. With his acrid barstool wit, literary allusions, and gut-punching twists, Bruen captures the Irish state of mind with bracing authenticity. Now, enthusiasts of his long-running series featuring Irish PI Jack Taylor—seven of which have been adapted for the screen—and new fans alike can discover Bruen’s early works in an omnibus shaded with the crazy, violent, and melancholy poetry that has become his trademark. Hailed by the Los Angeles Book Review as one of “the most original and innovative noir voices of the last two decades,” Bruen is a two-time Shamus Award winner, an Edgar Award finalist, and a recipient of the Grand Prix de Littérature Policière. A Fifth of Bruen includes: Funeral: Tales of Irish Morbidities, Martyrs, Shades of Grace, Sherry and Other Stories, All the Old Songs and Nothing to Lose, and The Time of Serena May &Upon the Third Cross.
Book Synopsis EU enlargement, the clash of capitalisms and the European social dimension by : Paul Copeland
Download or read book EU enlargement, the clash of capitalisms and the European social dimension written by Paul Copeland and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2015-11-01 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the heart of the European integration process is the political economy debate over whether the EU should be a market-making project, or if it should combine this with integration in employment and social policy. What has been the impact of the 2004 and 2007 rounds of enlargement upon the political economy of European integration? EU enlargement, the clash of capitalisms and the European social dimension analyses the impact of the 2004 and 2007 enlargements upon the politics of European integration within EU employment and social policy. This book analyses the main policy negotiations in the field and analyses the political positions and contributions of the Central and Eastern European Member States. Through analyses of the negotiations of the Services Directive, the revision of the Working Time Directive and the Europe 2020 poverty target, the book argues that the addition of the Central and Eastern European states has strengthened liberal forces at the EU level and undermined integration with EU employment and social policy.
Book Synopsis Literary visions of multicultural Ireland by : Pilar Villar-Argaiz
Download or read book Literary visions of multicultural Ireland written by Pilar Villar-Argaiz and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-16 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now available in paperback, this pioneering collection of essays deals with the topic of how Irish literature responds to the presence of non-Irish immigrants in Celtic-Tiger and post-Celtic-Tiger Ireland. The book assembles an international group of 18 leading and prestigious academics in the field of Irish studies from both sides of the Atlantic, including Declan Kiberd, Anne Fogarty and Maureen T. Reddy, amongst others. Key areas of discussion are: what does it mean to be ‘multicultural’ and what are the implications of this condition for contemporary Irish writers? How has literature in Ireland responded to inward migration? Have Irish writers reflected in their work (either explicitly or implicitly) the existence of migrant communities in Ireland? If so, are elements of Irish traditional culture and community maintained or transformed? What is the social and political efficacy of these intercultural artistic visions?
Book Synopsis The Dragon Tattoo and Its Long Tail by : David Geherin
Download or read book The Dragon Tattoo and Its Long Tail written by David Geherin and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2012-02-15 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The enormous popularity of Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy has raised awareness of other contemporary European authors of crime fiction. As a result, several of these novelists now reach a receptive American audience, eager for fresh perspectives in the genre. This critical text offers an introduction to current European crime writing by exploring ten of the best new crime nd mystery authors from Sweden (Stieg Larsson and Henning Mankell), Norway (Karin Fossum and Jo Nesbo), Iceland (Arnaldur Indridason), Italy (Andrea Camilleri), France (Fred Vargas), Scotland (Denise Mina and Philip Kerr), and Ireland (Ken Bruen), who are reshaping the landscape of the modern crime novel. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.
Book Synopsis These Guns for Hire by : J. A. Konrath
Download or read book These Guns for Hire written by J. A. Konrath and published by Big Earth Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They have a combined total of 500 million book sales, and have won every possible award in the mystery, thriller, and dark fiction genres. Thirty original hitman stories by today's modern masters. Noir. Wise guys. Sex. Freelance assassins. Humor. Violence. Femme fatales. Amateurs. Horror. Surprise twists. Hardboiled. Get ready for some wet work...
Download or read book Cross written by Ken Bruen and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-03-31 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While Jack Taylor's surrogate son, Cody, lies in a coma, he agrees to help his friend Ban Gardai Ridge solve a series of murders which have involved the crucifixion of one victim and the burning alive of another.
Download or read book Sanctuary written by Ken Bruen and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2010-04-27 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a letter containing a list of victims arrives in the post, P.I. Jack Taylor tells himself that it's got nothing to do with him. He has enough to do just staying sane. His close friend Ridge is recovering from surgery, and alcohol's siren song is calling to him ever more insistently. A guard and then a judge die in mysterious circumstances. But it is not until a child is added to the list that Taylor determines to find the identity of the killer, and stop them at any cost. What he doesn't know is that his relationship with the killer is far closer than he thinks. And it's about to become deeply personal. Spiked with dark humor, and fueled with rage at man's inhumanity to man, Ken Bruen's Sanctuary is crime writing at its darkest and most original.
Download or read book Galway Girl written by Ken Bruen and published by Grove Atlantic. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “They don’t come much tougher than Ken Bruen’s Irish roughneck, Jack Taylor,” and crime thrillers don’t get any better than this (The New York Times Book Review). Jack Taylor has never quite been able get his life together, but now he has truly hit rock bottom. Still reeling from a violent family tragedy, Taylor is busy drowning his grief in Jameson and uppers, as usual, when a high-profile officer in the local Garda is murdered. After another Guard is found dead, and then another, Taylor’s old colleagues from the force implore him to take on the case. The plot is one big game, and all of the pieces seem to be moving at the behest of one dangerously mysterious team: a trio of young killers with very different styles, but who are united their common desire to take down Jack Taylor. Their ring leader is Jericho, a psychotic girl from Galway who is grieving the loss of her lover, and who will force Jack to confront some personal trauma from his past. As sharp and sardonic as it is starkly bleak and violent, Galway Girl shows master raconteur Ken Bruen at his best: lyrical, brutal, and ceaselessly suspenseful.
Download or read book The Emerald Lie written by Ken Bruen and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Irish crime novel featuring ex-cop Jack Taylor from an author “among the most original and innovative noir voices of the last two decades” (Los Angeles Review of Books). In The Emerald Lie, the latest terror to be visited upon the dark Galway streets arrives in a most unusual form: a Cambridge graduate who becomes murderous over split infinitives, dangling modifiers, and any other sign of bad grammar. Meanwhile, Jack is approached by a grieving father with a pocketful of cash on offer if Jack will help exact revenge on those responsible for his daughter’s brutal rape and murder. Though hesitant to get involved, Jack agrees to get a read on the likely perpetrators. But Jack is soon derailed by the reappearance of Emily (previous alias: Emerald), the chameleon-like young woman who joined forces with Jack to take down her pedophile father in Green Hell and who remains passionate, clever, and utterly homicidal. She will use any sort of coercion to get Jack to conspire with her against the serial killer the Garda have nicknamed “the Grammarian,” but her most destructive obsession just might be Jack himself. “Nobody writes like Ken Bruen, with his ear for lilting Irish prose and his taste for the kind of gallows humor heard only at the foot of the gallows.” —Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review
Download or read book Ammunition written by Ken Bruen and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-07-24 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making a host of enemies in the course of his long career as a cop in southeast London, Inspector Brant becomes the target of a crazed gunman, and his former partner, Inspector Roberts, and his police colleagues join forces with the intended victim to find out which of his many enemies has targeted the ornery detective. Original. 20,000 first printing.
Download or read book The Devil written by Ken Bruen and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2010-08-31 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the next book in Ken Bruen's legendary private investigator series, Jack Taylor faces his most challenging opponent yet in this noir masterpiece, The Devil. America—the land of opportunity, a place where economic prosperity beckons: but not for PI Jack Taylor, who's just been refused entry. Disappointed and bitter, he thinks that an encounter with an overly friendly stranger in an airport bar is the least of his problems. Except that this stranger seems to know much more than he should about Jack. Jack thinks no more of their meeting and resumes his old life in Galway. But when he's called to investigate a student murder—connected to an elusive Mr. K—he remembers the man from the airport. Is the stranger really who he says he is? Jack struggles to make sense of it all, and the Jameson isn't helping. After several more murders and too many coincidental encounters, Jack believes he may have met his nemesis. But why has he been chosen? And could he really have taken on the devil himself? Suspenseful, haunting, and totally unique, The Devil is Bruen at his very best.
Book Synopsis 100 Most Popular Contemporary Mystery Authors by : Bernard A. Drew
Download or read book 100 Most Popular Contemporary Mystery Authors written by Bernard A. Drew and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-05-18 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provide your mystery fans with background information on their favorite writers and series characters, and use this as a guide for adding contemporary titles to your collections. This book examines 100 of today's top mystery novels and mystery authors hailing from countries such as the United States, Great Britain, France, Italy, South Africa, and Australia. Equally valuable to students writing research papers, readers craving new authors or more information about their favorite authors, and teachers seeking specific types of fiction to support curricula, 100 Most Popular Contemporary Mystery Authors: Biographical Sketches and Bibliographies provides revealing information about today's best mysteries and authorswithout any "spoilers." Each of the accomplished writers included in this guide has established a broad audience and is recognized for work that is imaginative and innovative. The rising stars of 21st century mystery will also be included, as will authors who have won the Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Award.
