JACK TAYLOR NOVELS Headstone The Devil Sanctuary Cross Priest The Dramatist The Magdalen Martyrs The Killing of the Tinkers The Guards BRANT NOVELS CRIME NOVELS MAX & ANGELA NOVELS The Devil US America—the land of opportunity, a place where economic prosperity beckons: but not for PI Jack Taylor, who's just been refused entry. Disappointed and bitter, he thinks that an encounter with an overly friendly stranger in an airport bar is the least of his problems. Except that this stranger seems to know much more than he should about Jack. Jack thinks no more of their meeting and resumes his old life in Galway. But when he's called to investigate a student murder—connected to an elusive Mr. K—he remembers the man from the airport. Is the stranger really who he says he is? With the help of the Jameson, Jack struggles to make sense of it all. After several more murders and too many coincidental encounters, Jack believes he may have met his nemesis. But why has he been chosen? And could he really have taken on the devil himself? Buy the book from Amazon, Amazon.co.uk or an independent bookstore. PRAISE UK "In Bruen's atmospheric, metaphysically tinged eighth Jack Taylor novel, the Galway PI clashes with Satan himself—or so all the clues scream. Denied passage to America at the airport in Ireland, Jack decides Xanax isn't enough and hits the bar for a Jameson, where he meets the mysterious Kurt, who tells him that "evil hones in on those closest to redemption." Soon murder and suicide point to the involvement of a "Mr. K" and force Jack to revisit previous cases, including a session with a tinker fortune teller. Bruen's usual tour of Galway shows Jack finding comfort in "that vanished Ireland where people stopped in the streets, blessing themselves and said the prayer." In addition to drugs and booze, Jack starts smoking again and reflects, "The Sig was to hand. I was ready and be-jaysus, I was willing." Lots of such delicious moments for the legion of fans dot this outing for the beleaguered detective—one character even suggests Jack read Sanctuary (2009), the previous novel in the series."    —Publishers Weekly "Former Garda detective and former Galway PI, Jack Taylor plans to immigrate to the U.S., but he runs afoul of airport security and isn't allowed to board his flight. Although his disappointment is cushioned by Xanax, he heads for the bar to get additional solace from Jameson and Guinness, while indulging in his love of personal recrimination. But the self-loathing session is interrupted by a stranger who fancies diabolical puns and seems to know things about Jack. Returning to Galway, Jack is hired to find a missing student; when the student's mutilated body is discovered, Jack recalls the unsettling stranger and begins to wonder if he is the Devil incarnate. On the way to a fateful showdown with the stranger (or Devil), Jack's signature screeds about his own failings and life in contemporary Ireland seem somewhat more modulated than in Sanctuary (2009). Aficionados of Jack's mental howls of rage and despair shouldn't themselves despair: The Devil is anything but cheerful. It will go down nicely with a large Jameson."    —Booklist