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When Jack Taylor blew town at the end of The Guards his alcoholism was a distant memory and sober dreams of a new life in London were shining in his eyes. In the opening pages of The Killing of the Tinkers , Jack's back in Galway a year later with a new leather jacket on his back, a pack of... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Jack Taylor: drunken irish ex-guard and reluctant private investigator
Quotes edit
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“She went shy; I’d swear she blushed though I think that’s a lost art.”
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“An alcoholic has dreams to rival that of any Vietnam vet.”
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“The difference between the drunk and the junkie is the drunk will steal your wallet. So will the junkie, but then he’ll help you look for it.”
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“He drank, not because of the darkness in him but the darkness in others.”
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I realised then for a fleeting moment what Thomas Merton knew. Serena didn’t have an extra chromosome; it was us, the normal ones, who were lacking the added spark. Would I could have held on to that moment, if I could have just sampled the energy for a little longer. I’d no longer need oblivion. Such knowledge is shocking, and few can handle it with care. I was even less able than I’d have imagined.
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Robert Irwin. A joy to my heart, a Cambridge scholar and wild drug user. Him I’d have liked on a pub crawl. How could it miss? His brilliant crazy work, Satan Wants Me, had just been reissued.
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Thomas Merton in his journal, written six months before his Asian journey: I realise that I have a past to break with — an accumulation of inertia, wrong, foolishness, rot, junk. A great need of clarification, of mindfulness, or rather, of no mind. A need to return to
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In John Straley’s book is the following: In my universe there are drinkers and dancers. And the two should never intermingle. I have always been with the drinkers, self-conscious introverts who crack wise about the music and sneer at the dancers at the same time. They are consumed with envy.
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First Sentence edit
The boy is back in town.
Series & Lists edit
This is book 2 of 8 in Jack Taylor. (standard series)
Preceded by The Guards, and followed by The Magdalen Martyrs.
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Country: Add the country of publication.
Publication Date: 2002
ISBN: 9780312339289
Page Count: 256
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Country: Add the country of publication.
Publication Date: 2002
ISBN: 9780312339289
Page Count: 256
Awards edit
- Anthony (2005: Best Novel, nominee)
- Macavity Awards (2005: Best Mystery Novel, #1)
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- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 813
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