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. 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.Īccepting 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. A series of seemingly random, insane, violent events even has the Guards shaken. A special needs boy is brutally attacked.

The award-winning author of sixteen novels, he is the editor of Dublin Noir, and spent twenty-five years as an English teacher in Africa, Japan, Southeast Asia and South America. In Headstone, an elderly priest is nearly beaten to death and a special-needs boy is brutally attacked. KEN BRUEN was born in Galway, Ireland in 1951. An elderly priest is viciously beaten until nearly dead. Headstone (Jack Taylor 9) by Ken Bruen 3.97 Rating details 1,277 ratings 132 reviews Acclaimed Irish crime writer Ken Bruen has won numerous awards for his hard-charging, dark thrillers, which have been translated into ten languages. Acclaimed Irish crime writer Ken Bruen has won numerous awards for his hard-charging, dark thrillers, which have been translated into ten languages. Jack Taylor has encountered most of them but nothing before has ever truly terrified him until a group called Headstone rears its ugly head.

Headstone by Ken Bruen