HEADSTONE: A JACK TAYLOR NOVEL OF TERROR
Book ID/图书代码： 10820012B52049
English Summary/英文概要： Some people help the less fortunate. Others kill them. Welcome to Headstone - Jack Taylor’s darkest nightmare.
An elderly priest is viciously beaten until nearly dead. A special needs boy is brutally attacked. 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. A series of seemingly random, insane, violent events has even the national police, 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.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 有些人会帮助那些不幸运的人，而另一些会去杀了他们。欢迎来到这个黑暗世界，《墓石》将会是杰克·泰勒(Jack Taylor)系列小说最恐怖的一部。
一位年长的牧师被人打到垂死边缘。一个智障的小男孩被残忍地攻击。邪恶的力量有着不可思议的伪装。杰克·泰勒遇到过很多可怕的事情，但是当一个叫墓石的集团出现的时候，他才感到了前所未有的恐惧。一系列任意，疯狂，暴力的事件接踵而至，甚至连国家警察的意志也为之动摇。
在死者的尸体旁边都会有一块墓石作为集团的标记，这个有着邪恶意图的集团使杰克的生活变得困苦不堪，无时无刻都在提醒着他恐怖的阴影正笼罩着整个高威城(Galway)。
杰克意识到如果要反抗墓石集团的话，他必须放弃自己剩下的人性－但整个国家似乎就要被强大的邪恶力量永远统治，而且现在做什么似乎都为时过晚了。
意识到这一点，杰克觉得自己不仅在这样的状况面前是如此的无力，他甚至觉得自己没有勇气去面对这一切。(XAT & CK)
Awards/获奖情况：对于《墓石》的褒奖：
“这将会是很优秀的小说系列。”---《出版者周刊》
“《墓石》是杰克·泰勒小说系列的又一力作。”---《费城日报》
“Ken Bruen是一位非常优秀的作家，尽管《墓石》是一部恐怖小说，它也为我们讲述了人性的救赎，即使要付出很大的代价，阅读的过程中你会感到情节很紧张，也会感到很愉快。”---书刊报告
“《墓石》让我在这一年中获得了最大的阅读乐趣。”---David J. Montgomery《犯罪小说档案》
“布鲁恩(Bruen)将会变成美国的犯罪小说迷的偶像和评论界的新宠。”---Allen Barra，《大西洋》
“陰謀，混亂，精神紊亂，和黑色幽默周而復始地出現。"---Shelf Awareness
Praise for Headstone
“Hard hitting&hellip a remarkable series.”---Publishers Weekly
“Headstone is an excellent addition to the Jack Taylor series.”---Philadelphia Inquirer
“Ken Bruen is brilliant. While HEADSTONE is the stuff of nightmares, it is also the stuff of redemption, even at great cost. You will feel wrung out after reading this one, but all the gladder for it.”---Bookreporter
“Headstone is one of the year’s best reading pleasures.”---David J. Montgomery, Crime Fiction Dossier
“Bruen is threatening to become a mass cult figure in the U.S. as well as a critical favorite.”---Allen Barra, The Atlantic
“A nonstop rampage of intrigue, mayhem, lunacy and dark-dark-dark humor.”---Shelf Awareness
About the Author/作者介绍： 肯.布魯恩(Ken Bruen)，于1951年出生在高威(Galway)，是《保卫者》（2001）的作者，是杰克·泰勒(Jack Taylor)系列的第一部且广受好评。他在非洲，日本，东南亚和南美当过25年的英语老师。他的著作《Her Last Call to Louis Mac Niece》被Pilgrim Pictures拍成电影，他的“白色三部曲”版权已被4频道买下，而《保衛者》也將在愛爾蘭被De Facto Films 拍攝成電影。
Ken Bruen, born in Galway in 1951, is the author of The Guards (2001), the highly acclaimed first Jack Taylor novel. He spent twenty-five years as an English teacher in Africa, Japan, S.E. Asia and South America. His novel Her Last Call to Louis Mac Niece (1997) is in production for Pilgrim Pictures, his "White Trilogy" has been bought by Channel 4, and The Guards is to be filmed in Ireland by De Facto Films.
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