The Killing of the Tinkers (Audible Audio Edition) Ken Bruen Gerry O'Brien ISIS Audio Books Books
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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.
The Killing of the Tinkers (Audible Audio Edition) Ken Bruen Gerry O'Brien ISIS Audio Books Books
I read the first one and then this one. It's odd. The main character does basically zero detecting. He just gets drunk all the time and gets beaten up, and spends sometimes days in a hospital, and then he gets out and staggers around drinking and still not detecting. Eventually other people figure out who dunnit. Despite being a fifty year old drunk he's magically attractive to women. He throws up a lot. There is a lot of quoting of other writers, a ton of showing what a literary guy Taylor is. It's not effective because it's too much. It's like he loves any text, just like he loves any booze. I suppose that's the point. But I often end up skipping the quotes, probably for the same reason I don't drink all the timeReading these is a bit like looking at a car wreck, or rather A LOT like looking at a car wreck, which everybody does. The point of interest is the wreck, but all the valuable work is done by the other characters. People hand him fat envelopes of cash for being the guy other people do work for. Usually multple innocent people die because Taylor screws up in one way or another. You have to suspend disbelief even more than in most hard boiled detective noir.
Still I enjoy reading them, and I'm not sure why, so that's probably a good thing
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The Killing of the Tinkers (Audible Audio Edition) Ken Bruen Gerry O'Brien ISIS Audio Books Books Reviews
There is magic in Ken Bruen that is not easily placed. It's certainly not the plot - there is little mystery and less forensics in Bruen's Irish crime staccato. And one can hardly be drawn to the characters, unless in the mildly perverse sense of attraction to tragic heroes plotting self destruction. Nor is Bruen good for your spirits, as he drags the reader through vast fields of human wreckage that begin with mere despair and reach utter wretchedness by the climax. Yet just as Bruen's drug and alcohol addled Jack Taylor is drawn to his booze and coke, I find myself addicted to this sparse and brutal poetry disguised as fiction, not merely unique but untouchable.
"The Killing of the Tinkers" is the second Jack Taylor novel. A classically simple Bruen story line someone is killing "tinkers" (gypsies), the cops could care less, ex-Guard Taylor is offered a lucrative fee by one of the clan to find out who. But as with most of Bruen's writing, this central plot - finding the killer - is mostly forgotten as the insolent Taylor drifts in and out of all varieties of drug induced stupors and subsequent vomit and hangovers - not a lot of social redeeming value here, and far from the cardboard cutout PIs more often found in crime fiction. Taylor stays sober enough to wreck his short marriage and start a torrid new affair. While some of the tangents and side stories may seem like diversion in a patently sparse Bruen novel, this is indeed key to the Bruen's allure of spinning the complex psychological and cultural backdrop to the story. As always, the well-read author peppers his prose with a wide range of literary quotes and references - how can you argue with a guy comfortable with Dylan Thomas and Bob Dylan - adding a dimension that complements the story while contradicting Taylor's surface brutishness. The birth of Taylor's friends child builds from the poignant in "Tinkers" to the heart wrenching in subsequent Taylor novels ("The Dramatist", "Priest"). From confrontation to beatings to decapitated swans and irate mothers, Taylor and Bruen careen to a finish that if not Hitchcockian is certainly surprising, highlighting some clever foreshadowing not typically associated with this author.
In short, modern noir as bleak as it can get, an addiction too intelligent to be called guilty pleasure. If you're not a Ken Bruen fan yet, pick up "The Guards" first and start your own habit.
This is the second of Mr. Bruen's series featuring Jack Taylor. Taylor, ex-Garda officer and most-of-the drinker is at the beginning of his long fall into dissolution and despair. Nonetheless, he, and the novels are compelling reading companions. Once the reader accepts the fact that Jack will never get fully sober, happy and hopeful, the reader can just hold on to the careening roller-coaster cart of Taylor's life and enjoy the ride. It is obvious that underneath Jack Taylor's cynicism is a deep well of hurt.
The plot synopsis is available else where; what I will add is my complete recommendation to a prospective reader to enjoy Bruen's antihero' sad ventures in crime fighting.
One fact that is certain is that the author is a connoisseur of alternative music and books. His leading character, ex-Guarda Jack Taylor, now a dissipated PI, constantly returns to such as about the only stable aspect in a otherwise messed up life. Taylor has supposedly returned from London a new man, but in reality his abuse of alcohol and drugs has gotten worse. He quickly slips into his old haunts.
Apparently, his dissipation can be ignored by the desperate. In this case four gypsies have been murdered and the local police cannot be bothered. One would think that some serious sleuthing would ensue; not so. Were it not for the work of friends, ex-cops, etc virtually nothing would get done. Taylor does manage to get himself seriously beat up. And, no surprise, what work he does do is flawed.
This book is little different form the first it being basically cryptic, abrupt, disjointed, quirky, and unfocused. It appears this is the pattern of Jack Taylor books. And the drunken stupor routine is wearing thin.
This review will echo my review of the first book in the series, I can’t really call this a mystery, Jack Taylor spends most of the book careening through he’s life smashing everything in sight and doing no detecting at all, but somehow manages to solve the mystery through luck after bungling it horribly. Jack’s alcoholism and self pity wear thin but the writer creates some interesting characters along the way. The constant literary references are great up to a point but I’d guess 1/8th of this book id made up of quotations from songs, books, poems, singers, and other writers while and another 1/8th is devoted to hero worship or criticisms of popular bands, artists and literary figures, Still I enjoyed it. The reference to the Mathew Scudder books by Lawrence Block was a nod well owed as these books echo the darker moments in the Scudder books in tone, I enjoy these books but can’t help thinking that a writer of this talent could write better ones.
I read the first one and then this one. It's odd. The main character does basically zero detecting. He just gets drunk all the time and gets beaten up, and spends sometimes days in a hospital, and then he gets out and staggers around drinking and still not detecting. Eventually other people figure out who dunnit. Despite being a fifty year old drunk he's magically attractive to women. He throws up a lot. There is a lot of quoting of other writers, a ton of showing what a literary guy Taylor is. It's not effective because it's too much. It's like he loves any text, just like he loves any booze. I suppose that's the point. But I often end up skipping the quotes, probably for the same reason I don't drink all the time
Reading these is a bit like looking at a car wreck, or rather A LOT like looking at a car wreck, which everybody does. The point of interest is the wreck, but all the valuable work is done by the other characters. People hand him fat envelopes of cash for being the guy other people do work for. Usually multple innocent people die because Taylor screws up in one way or another. You have to suspend disbelief even more than in most hard boiled detective noir.
Still I enjoy reading them, and I'm not sure why, so that's probably a good thing
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