![]() ![]() My main gripe with this book, and with series as a whole, is that Bruen plays the “damned” card pretty heavily when it comes to the life and times of Jack Taylor. The Prince of Darkness happens to be working on a pet project in Galway, killing off various innocents from various walks of life, all for the sake of that esteemed goal of making the world a bit more of a worse place to live. ![]() Taylor finds himself in some deep shit this time around when he happens to slouch his way into the Lord of Lies line of sight. The Devil is a pretty concise and focused novel compared to the normal Bruen fair which tend to hinge on the barest semblances of plot and often re-write backstory to make way for any idea that pops into the author’s Irish brain, usually at the cost of any continuity or sense of character progression for the reader. No, the title is anything but metaphorical.Īctually, this book turned out to be a pleasant puff of fresh Gaelic air after the last three ho-hum entries in the never-ending struggle between Jack Taylor and his own damned nature. A fairly straight-faced PI series suddenly introduces 8 books-in a supernatural element? And by “supernatural element” I mean our barely-functioning PI Jack Taylor goes head-to-head in the streets of Galway with the Infernal One himself. For all intents and purposes, this book probably should have sucked pretty hard. ![]()
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