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Headstone

By: Ken Bruen
Narrated by: Gerry O'Brien
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Some people help the less fortunate. Others kill them.

Evil has many guises. Jack Taylor has encountered most of them but nothing before has ever truly terrified him until a group called Headstone rears its ugly head. An elderly priest is viciously beaten until nearly dead. A special-needs boy is brutally attacked. A series of seemingly random, insane, violent events even has the Guards shaken.

Most would see a headstone as a marker of the dead, but this coterie of evil intends to act as a death knell to every aspect of Jack's life as an act of appalling violence alerts him to the horror enveloping Galway. Accepting the power of Headstone, Jack realizes that in order to fight back he must relinquish the remaining shreds of what has made him human - knowledge that may have come too late to prevent an act of such ferocious evil that the whole country would be changed forever - and in the worst way.

With awful clarity, Jack knows that not only might he be powerless to stop it but that he may not have the grit needed to even face it.

©2012 Ken Bruen (P)2012 Random House Audiobooks Crime Fiction Mystery Suspense Thriller & Suspense Fiction Crime Scary

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I think that the narration on these is amazing and makes them even better than the authors skill. This one has a lot of death and destruction l. I love the juxtaposition that Jack alwys finds himself in - paying for strangers headstones and debts and then murdering! I love the references to modern culture too (TV shows like Dexter and lines from my favourite songs). My favourite detective by a mile.

Another great Taylor tale

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