JACK TAYLOR NOVELS Priest The Dramatist The Magdalen Martyrs The Killing of the Tinkers The Guards BRANT NOVELS Calibre Vixen Blitz The McDead Taming the Alien A White Arrest CRIME NOVELS American Skin Dispatching Baudelaire London Boulevard Her Last Call to Louis Macneice The Hackman Blues Rilke on Black THE HACKMAN BLUES UK A job of pure simplicity. Find a white girl in Brixton. Piece of cake. What I should have done is doubled my medication and lit a candle to St Jude - maybe a lot of candles. Add to the mixture a lethal ex-con, an Irish builder obsessed with Gene Hackman, the biggest funeral Brixton has ever seen, and what you get is the Blues like they've never been sung before. Ken Bruen's powerful second novel is a gritty and grainy mix of crime noir and Urban Blues that greets you like a mugger stays with you like a razor-scar. Buy the book from Amazon.co.uk or an independent bookstore. PRAISE "Bruen's ability to keep the reader's interest in an unsympathetic character merits comparisons to Thompson's The Killer Inside Me"    —Jon L. Breen, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine