Ken Bruen was born in Galway in 1951 and is the author of over twenty novels. After completing a MA in English he spent twenty-five years as an English teacher in Africa, Japan, S-E. Asia and South America.

Ken Bruen has been a finalist for the Edgar, Anthony and Barry awards and he has won the Shamus Award and the Macavity Award.

”So many books are so much like so many other books that it’s always a delight to encounter a writer with an utterly distinctive voice. The prize-winning Irish novelist Ken Bruen is such a writer. The words that best describe him, besides original, are outrageous and hilarious.” — WASHINGTON POST

“Bruen, who lives in Galway, Ireland, is a brilliant, creative, original voice. He is a writer clearly seeped in the American hard-boiled and noir tradition; he had been called a “Celtic Dashiell Hammett.” And indeed, if you are Irish, you instinctively know about the dark side of life even before you learn to read. History resonates. But part of being Irish is to leaven the bad stuff with a caustic, fatalistic, often-hilarious sense of humor. And that is evident in Bruen’s work.” — BOOKREPORTER

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