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Tag: Ken Bruen

Headstone by Ken Bruen – review

Headstone by Ken Bruen – review
November 23, 2011
Book Reviews

Jack Taylor, Ken Bruen’s endlessly put-upon Galway PI, finds himself up to his hearing-aid assisted ears in shit yet again …Read the Rest

Headstone by Ken Bruen – review

Headstone by Ken Bruen – review
November 4, 2011
Book Reviews

How far can you push a man before he finally breaks? I guess if you’re Jack Taylor—Ken Bruen’s favorite degenerate …Read the Rest

Blitz by Elliot Lester – review

Blitz by Elliot Lester – review
August 25, 2011
Reviews

Blitz doesn’t get its source material at all.  Based on the novel by Ken Bruen, the filmmakers know the words …Read the Rest

Trailers for two new Jack Taylor movies: The Pikeman & The Magdalen Martyrs

Trailers for two new Jack Taylor movies: The Pikeman & The Magdalen Martyrs
March 18, 2011
Books

A little more than a year ago Spinetingler brought you the first images from the movie The Guards, based on …Read the Rest

The Devil by Ken Bruen – review

The Devil by Ken Bruen – review
February 23, 2011
Book Reviews

“The Devil” reads like a cocktail of Xanax and Jameson, with a side of Guiness. Maybe that’s because Jack Taylor …Read the Rest

Priest by Ken Bruen – review

Priest by Ken Bruen – review
January 19, 2011
Book Reviews

Ireland, awash in cash and greed, no longer turns to the church for solace or comfort. But the decapitation of …Read the Rest

London Boulevard by William Monahan, Based on the novel by Ken Bruen

London Boulevard by William Monahan, Based on the novel by Ken Bruen
November 24, 2010
Film

reviewed by Russel D McLean Let’s get this up front: I love the script for The Departed. Foul, profane and …Read the Rest

Rilke on Black by Ken Bruen – review

Rilke on Black by Ken Bruen – review
November 1, 2010
Book Reviews

Rilke on Black tells the story of three people who form a precarious partnership to kidnap a local Rilke quoting …Read the Rest

Blitz – trailer

Blitz – trailer
October 30, 2010
Books

It’s a Ken Bruen two-fer. After yesterday’s trailer for London Boulevard today we’ve got the trailer for Blitz. Check it …Read the Rest

Calibre & Vixen by Ken Bruen – review

Calibre & Vixen by Ken Bruen – review
October 29, 2010
Book Reviews

I originally reviewed Calibre & Vixen by Ken Bruen on January 30th, 2007. In both Vixen and Calibre Bruen chooses …Read the Rest

The Devil by Ken Bruen – Review

The Devil by Ken Bruen – Review
October 28, 2010
Book Reviews

God’s favorite whipping boy Jack Taylor is back in The Devil, Ken Bruen’s eighth entry in his Galway private eye series, and …Read the Rest

Blitz by Ken Bruen – review

Blitz by Ken Bruen – review
October 18, 2010
Book Reviews

I originally reviewed Blitz by Ken Bruen on December 20th 2006. Unlike the Jack Taylor series which has to read …Read the Rest

American Skin by Ken Bruen – review

American Skin by Ken Bruen – review
October 9, 2010
Book Reviews

I originally reviewed American Skin by Ken Bruen on December 14th 2006 In the last couple of years, since the …Read the Rest

The Killing of the Tinkers by Ken Bruen – review

The Killing of the Tinkers by Ken Bruen – review
October 8, 2010
Book Reviews

I originally reviewed The Killing of the Tinkers by Ken Bruen on December 13th 2006. At the end of The …Read the Rest

She Wails Through the Fair by Ken Bruen from Requiems for the Departed – review

She Wails Through the Fair by Ken Bruen from Requiems for the Departed – review
October 1, 2010
Book Reviews

reviewed by Jedidiah Ayres I chose the banshee because my father, who was the most sceptical and cynical of men, …Read the Rest

The White Trilogy by Ken Bruen – review

The White Trilogy by Ken Bruen – review
September 30, 2010
Book Reviews

“Here are your poor, your tired, your hungry; your predatory crack dealers, your arsonists; your killers for money, for revenge, …Read the Rest

Bust by Ken Bruen & Jason Starr

Bust by Ken Bruen & Jason Starr
September 8, 2010
Book Reviews

I originally reviewed Bust on November 15th, 2006. Bust is the first collaborative novel in the Hard Case stable and …Read the Rest

The Guards TV movie review

The Guards TV movie review
August 24, 2010
Film

by Karl McGowan I recently got to see the film adaptation of Ken Bruen’s The Guards, shown on the Irish …Read the Rest

The Guards by Ken Bruen – review

The Guards by Ken Bruen – review
August 6, 2010
Book Reviews

More then the central mystery to be solved The Guards acts as a character study of Jack Taylor. In Taylor, …Read the Rest

Trailer for The Guards based on Jack Taylor novels of Ken Bruen

Trailer for The Guards based on Jack Taylor novels of Ken Bruen
August 2, 2010
Books

After the jump Spinetingler has the full trailer for the first Jack Taylor film, The Guards, based on the Jack …Read the Rest