[bksvol-discuss] The Magdalen Martyrs
- From: "Jim" <jim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Bksvol-Discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 14:57:34 -0700
Just submitted The Magdalen Martyrs by Ken Bruen
FROM THE PUBLISHER
Jack Taylor is walking the delicate edge of a sobriety he doesn't trust when
his phone rings. He's in debt to a Galway tough named Bill Cassell, what the
locals call a "hard man." Bill did Jack a big favor a while back; the trouble
is, he never lets a favor go unreturned.
Jack is amazed when Cassell simply asks him to track down a woman, now either
dead or very old, who long ago helped his mother escape from the notorious
Magdalen laundry, where young wayward girls were imprisoned and abused. Jack
doesn't like the odds of finding the woman, but counts himself lucky that the
task is at least on the right side of the law.
Until he spends a few days spinning his wheels and is dragged in front of
Cassell for a quick reminder of his priorites. Bill's goons do a little
spinning of their own, playing a game of Russian roulette a little too close to
the back of Jack's head. It's only blind luck and the mercy of a god he no
longer trusts that land Jack back on the street rather than face down in a
cellar with a bullet in his skull. He's got one chance to stay alive: find this
woman.
Unfortunately, he can't escape his own curiosity, and an unnerving hunch
quickly turns into a solid fact: just who Jack's looking for, and why, aren't
nearly what they seem.
The Magdalen Martyrs, the third Galway-set novel by Edgar, Barry, and Macavity
finalist and Shamus Award-winner Ken Bruen, is a gripping, dazzling story that
takes the Jack Taylor series to explosive new heights of suspense.
Jim B
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