Sanctuary (Paperback)

Galway private eye Jack Taylor (Cross, 2008, etc.) tracks a psychopath whose craziness might be Taylor-made.The letter from someone calling himself Benedictus is short, weird and menacing, and Taylor gets total blame for its homicidal intent. Its list of targets marked for death includes two guards, a nun, a judge and a child. And it informs Taylor that "only you will truly comprehend my mission." But Taylor doesn't comprehend. Nor does he have any idea who the signer is. In a rare burst of good citizenship, he takes the letter to the Garda Siochana, the Irish National Police, where Superintendent Clancy, once his close friend, now his implacable enemy, laughs him out of his office, little knowing how he'll rue the day. Meanwhile, Taylor has a plate full of other troubles. There's the matter of his sobriety, for instance. At the moment he's on the wagon, though his purchase is precarious. There's the matter of Cathleen Ridge, the Guard who's been Taylor's "partner in hostility and uneasy alliance for years." She's battling breast cancer. But Benedictus won't go away. And when Taylor finally discovers what's made him so bitter, he's shocked and angry - and scared.In his seventh time out, Taylor isn't as compelling as he has been, or needs to be, to compensate for Bruen's pedestrian plotting. (Kirkus Reviews)

When a letter containing a list of victims arrives in the post, PI Jack Taylor is sickened, but tells himself the list has 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 put a stop to the killings at any cost.
What he doesn't know is that his relationship with the killer is far closer than he thinks, and that it's about to become deeply personal.
Spiked with dark humour, seasoned with acute insights into the perils of urbanization, and fuelled by rage at man's inhumanity to man, this is crime-writing at its darkest and most original.

"From the Trade Paperback edition."

General

Imprint:	Transworld Publishers Ireland Ltd
Country of origin:	Ireland
Release date:	April 2009
First published:	2010
Authors:	Ken Bruen
Dimensions:	178 x 106 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	222
ISBN-13:	978-1-84827-018-3
Categories:	Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > Crime & mystery > General Promotions
LSN:	1-84827-018-6
Barcode:	9781848270183

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