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The killing of the Tinkers

A man who's given up on life finds life in helping a kindred spirit.

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  • "When Jack Taylor blew town at the end of The Guards his alcoholism was a distant memory and sober dreams of a new life in London were shining in his eyes. In the opening pages of The Killing of the Tinkers, Jack's back in Galway a year later with a new leather jacket on his back, a pack of smokes in his pocket, a few grams of coke in his waistband, and a pint of Guinness on his mind. So much for new beginnings. Before long he's sunk into his old patterns, lifting his head from the bar only every few days, appraising his surroundings for mere minutes and then descending deep into the alcoholic, drug-induced fugue he prefers to the real world. But a big gypsy walks into the bar one day during a moment of Jack's clarity and changes all that with a simple request. Jack knows the look in this man's eyes, a look of hopelessness mixed with resolve topped off with a quietly simmering rage; he's seen it in the mirror. Recognizing a kindred soul, Jack agrees to help him, knowing but not admitting that getting involved is going to lead to more bad than good. But in Jack Taylor's world bad and good are part and parcel of the same lost cause, and besides, no one ever accused Jack of having good sense."
  • "A man who's given up on life finds life in helping a kindred spirit."@en
  • "Back in Galway and back to his old drinking habits, Jack Taylor agrees to assist a gypsy in an investigation into the deaths of a number of members of the gypsy clan, deaths that the Guarda, the Irish police, are reluctant to investigate."
  • "Jack Taylor, a disgraced ex-cop in Galway, has slid further down the slope of despair. After a year in London he returns to his home town of Galway with a leather coat and a coke habit. Someone is systematically slaughtering young travellers and dumping their bodies in the city centre. Even in the state he¡s in, Jack Taylor has an uncanny ability to know where to look, what questions to ask, and with the aid of an English policeman, apparently solves the case."
  • "Reprend le personnage de "Delirium Tremens", Jack Taylor, qui revient à Galway. Il retrouve ses anciens amis, les dealers, les pubs et se voit aussitôt confier une affaire par un chef tinker (des gens du voyage qui passent leur vie sur les routes d'Irlande). Depuis quelques semaines, des jeunes hommes de la communauté de Galway sont assassinés. Le nez poudré plongé dans la bière, Taylor enquête."
  • "Back in Galway and back to his old drinking habits, Jack Taylor agrees to assist a gypsy in an investigation into the deaths of a number of members of the gypsy clan, deaths that the Guards, the Irish police, are reluctant to investigate."@en
  • "Back in Galway and back to his old drinking habits, Jack Taylor agrees to assist a gypsy in an investigation into the deaths of a number of members of the gypsy clan, deaths that the Guards, the Irish police, are reluctant to investigate."
  • "When Jack Taylor blew town at the end of The Guards his alcoholism was a distant memory and sober dreams of a new life in London were shining in his eyes. In the opening pages of The Killing of the Tinkers, Jack's back in Galway a year later with a new leather jacket on his back, a pack of smokes in his pocket, a few grams of coke in his waistband, and a pint of Guinness on his mind. So much for new beginnings. Before long he's sunk into his old patterns, lifting his head from the bar only every few days, appraising his surroundings for mere minutes and then descending deep into the alcoholic, drug-induced fugue he prefers to the real world. But a big gypsy walks into the bar one day during a moment of Jack's clarity and changes all that with a simple request. Jack knows the look in this man's eyes, a look of hopelessness mixed with resolve topped off with a quietly simmering rage; he's seen it in the mirror. Recognizing a kindred soul, Jack agrees to help him, knowing but not admitting that getting involved is going to lead to more bad than good. But in Jack Taylor's world bad and good are part and parcel of the same lost cause, and besides, no one ever accused Jack of having good sense. Ken Bruen wowed critics and readers alike when he introduced Jack Taylor in The Guards; he'll blow them away with The Killing of the Tinkers, a novel of gritty brilliance that cements Bruen's place among the greats of modern crime fiction."@en

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  • "Roman policier"
  • "Irish fiction (English)"
  • "Mystery fiction"@en
  • "Mystery fiction"
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Detective and mystery stories"
  • "Detective and mystery stories"@en
  • "Irské romány (anglicky)"
  • "Fiction"@he
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Detektivní romány"
  • "Large type books"
  • "Large type books"@en
  • "Translations"@he
  • "Krimis, Thriller, Spionage"
  • "Detective novels"

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  • "Jack Taylor liegt falsch"
  • "The killing of the Tinkers"@en
  • "Vraždy bez trestu"
  • "The killing of the tinkers a novel"@en
  • "The Killing of the Tinkers"@en
  • "Toxic blues : une enquête de Jack Taylor"
  • "Jack Taylor liegt falsch : Kriminalroman"
  • "The Killing of the Tinkers"
  • "The killing of the tinkers : Jack Taylor series"@en
  • "ר' זה רצח"
  • "The killing of the tinkers : a Jack Taylor story"@en
  • "The killing of the tinkers : a Jack Taylor story"
  • "La matanza de los gitanos"@es
  • "<&gt"@he
  • "Toxic blues"
  • "The killing of the tinkers [: second Jack Taylor novel]"
  • "La matanza de los gitanos : [un nuevo caso de Jack Taylor]"@es
  • "The killing of the tinkers"@en
  • "Toxic Blues : une enquête de Jack Taylor"
  • "The killing of the tinkers"
  • "Jack Taylor liegt falsch Kriminalroman"
  • "Jack Taylor liegt falsch : [der 2. Jack Taylor]"

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