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 is also the author of the Inspector Brant series. Several of Bruen's novels have been adapted for the screen: The first six Jack Taylor novels were adapted into a television series starring Iain Glen; Blitz was adapted into a movie starring Jason Statham; and London Boulevard was adapted into a film starring Colin Farrell and Keira Knightley. Bruen lives in Galway, Ireland.
"It's always a delight to discover a writer with an utterly distinctive voice...the words that best describe him, besides original, are outrageous and hilarious." --Washington Post "Bruen's furious hard-boiled prose, chopped down to its trademark essence, never fails to astonish." --Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Bruen's style is clipped, caustic, heartbreaking and often hilarious." --Cleveland Plain Dealer "Irish writer Ken Bruen does the noir thing well. His men are tough, his prose is lean, and there's not a single drop or morsel of sentimentality to be found therein." --Entertainment Weekly "A soul-mate of Jim Thompson's, or maybe James M. Cain's." --Irish Times
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