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    <body><![CDATA[CROSS (Private Investigator-Jack Taylor-Ireland-Cont) – Ex<br/>Bruen, Ken – 6th in series<br/>Bantam Press, 2007, UK Hardcover – ISBN:  9780593057278<br/>First Sentence:  It took them a time to crucify the kid.<br/>*** There is a lot going on in Jack Taylor’s life.  He is off the drink; ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4373035">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Um...I was a bit disappointed with this, it wasn't as good as I expected it to be especially after reading the blurb on the back cover. It was the first Ken Bruen I've read, but I think I may go and try one of the others in the Jack Taylor series just to give Bruen the benefit of the doubt. Having s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49482620">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Holy shit - the Jack Taylor series has just become one of my favorite detective / crime fiction series of all time.  You must read these books in order (and this is like the 5th or 6th), but read them, you must.<br/><br/>Thoroughly Irish, this series tells the heart-wrenching sagas of Jack Taylor,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66787487">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I love his characters, the spare yet realistic and gritty dialogue, the evocation of modern-day Ireland and of course Jack Taylor and his struggles]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Don't ever let two Goth-y looking Irish teenagers get into your car, dump petrol on you, then set you afire. It will be bad.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[One of Bruen's better books. I've got it down now - the double problem that solves each other, or not. Fine stuff. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Didn't finish... not my type of book.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I've been a fan of Bruen's Jack Taylor series since the beginning. Even when they seemed a bit in love with their own coolness, I thought they were funny and even sometimes shocking and sentimental in a pleasing way.  But with his latest installment, Bruen seems uninterested--the book's like a pale ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18046186">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Ken Bruen never disappoints.  Cross proves as dark and unflinching in its exploration of the human soul, yet never losing its capacity for humor.  Bruen's erudition never overwhelms the story lines because the not so delicate balance of dark despair and coarse ribaldry which characterizes Irish lite...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23493871">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A Jack Taylor book isn't one to read if you are depressed.  Jack is so flawed that you know there won't be a happy ending. Bruen's visual description of Galway and the never-ending barbs coming from Jack's mouth make you not care if Jack has a case to solve.  You just want to follow him around Irela...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19381807">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Not as strong as <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q= The Guards" title=" The Guards"> The Guards</a> or <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q= The Killing of the Tinkers" title=" The Killing of the Tinkers"> The Killing of the Tinkers</a> - the voice that makes me love Jack Taylor seems a bit muddled in the book's first half.  The staccato noir cadence returns in the back half, thankfully, but overall not as complete as the earlier works.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[If you haven't read Ken Bruen, you have a treat in store.  Great noir writer from Ireland.  His Jack Taylor character is wonderful, a depressed alcoholic ex-cop to whom the downtrodden come to find lost loved ones.  Great antihero.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Pain, anguish and saving humor. Bruen is a master of noir writing, and I haven't found a book of his yet that I could put down. Cross is a sequel to Priest, which is just as good. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[More dark &amp; dreary stuff.  What's with me lately?  The dark side of Ireland  and a look into a very troubled man.  Poor Jack Taylor - he needs a break!]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Again another good book by Ken Bruen.  I am headed to the library for more!]]></body>
    
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