Blitz
by Ken Bruen
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Read in September, 2006
If Jack the Ripper Told Bedtime Stories...
...he'd probably ask Ken Bruen to write his scripts.
Ken Bruen's "Blitz" is a rock `em, sock `em, no-holds-bar brawl of violent men and hard women on both sides of the law - an in-your-face tale told from the wrong side of London.
Remember the days when Lawrence Sanders was bringing crime fiction to the masses with NYPD's tough Captain Delaney and gripping crime drama like "The First Deadly Sin?" Well, carve up Sander's ped...more
...he'd probably ask Ken Bruen to write his scripts.
Ken Bruen's "Blitz" is a rock `em, sock `em, no-holds-bar brawl of violent men and hard women on both sides of the law - an in-your-face tale told from the wrong side of London.
Remember the days when Lawrence Sanders was bringing crime fiction to the masses with NYPD's tough Captain Delaney and gripping crime drama like "The First Deadly Sin?" Well, carve up Sander's ped...more
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Read in August, 2008
I'll be done with this in about 20 minutes and am enjoying this much more than the last Bruen I read (the Hackman Blues, one of the few I've read by him that didn't completely take over my life for a few days.) I want to be Inspector Brant...
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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.
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Read in January, 2007
Ken Bruen is a unique voice in crime fiction. He is truly a punk rock writer. He writes in short blasts of witty bitter truthful blurts and blasts. But he doesn't let his style overwhelm is substance.
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Read in June, 2008
I'm not crazy about the heavy amount of dialog compared to narrative, but the hardboiled and pared-down characters were a blast. The whole read was a shot in the gut, in a good way.
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Read in June, 2008
An Inspector Brandt gritty crime mystery, set in London
Bruen does hard boiled so well!
Bruen does hard boiled so well!
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Another fast paced crime novel from the Irish master. A politically incorrect heaven.
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