GREEN HELL: A JACK TAYLOR NOVEL

Book ID/图书代码： 10820014B76153

English Summary/英文概要： The award-winning crime writer Ken Bruen, called “the best-kept literary secret in Ireland” by the Independent, is as joyously unapologetic in his writing as he is wickedly poetic, mixing high and low with hypnotic mastery. In the previous book in the series, Purgatory, ex-cop Jack Taylor had finally turned his life around, only to be taunted back into fighting Galway’s corruption by a twisted serial killer named C33. In the new novel Green Hell, Bruen’s dark angel of a protagonist has again hit rock bottom: one of his best friends is dead, the other has stopped speaking to him; he has given up battling his addiction to alcohol and pills; and his firing from the Irish national police, the Guards, is ancient history. But Jack isn’t about to embark on a self-improvement plan. Instead, he has taken up a vigilante case against a respected professor of literature at the University of Galway who has a violent habit his friends in high places are only too happy to ignore. And when Jack rescues a preppy American student on a Rhodes Scholarship from a couple of kid thugs, he also unexpectedly gains a new sidekick, who abandons his thesis on Beckett to write a biography of Galway’s most magnetic rogue.

Between pub crawls and violent outbursts, Jack’s vengeful plot against the professor soon spirals toward chaos. Enter Emerald, an edgy young Goth who could either be the answer to Jack’s problems, or the last ripped stitch in his undoing. Ireland may be known as a “green Eden,” but in Jack Taylor’s world, the national color has a decidedly lethal sheen.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 获得过多个奖项的犯罪小说作家Ken Bruen被《独立》杂志称为“爱尔兰保守得最好的文学秘密”。他能随意驾驭写作，同时却极富诗意，像催眠大师一样让小说跌宕起伏。在本系列上一本书《炼狱》中，前警察Jack Taylor终于转变了自己的生活，可是却在一位名叫C33的扭曲的连环杀手的嘲笑下回到与高威腐败的战斗中去。在新书《绿色地狱》中，Bruen的主角黑天使再次触底：他的两个好友中一个已经身死，另一个不再和他说话；他任由自己酗酒嗑药；他辞掉爱尔兰国家警察The Guards 的职务也是很久以前的事了。但Jack并没有打算开始自我修养计划。相反，他开始义务调查受人尊敬的高威大学文学系教授的残暴习惯，而该教授的高朋们都被蒙蔽了。当Jack从两个歹徒手底下救出一个罗德奖学金美国预科生时，他还意外收获了一个新的搭档。这个搭档放弃了关于Beckett的论文，转而去为高威最具吸引力的恶徒写传记。

在酒吧小打小闹到激烈冲突爆发之间，Jack 针对教授的复仇计划很快走向混乱。急躁的年轻哥特人Emerald 出现了，她可能会是Jack解决所有问题的答案，也可能是将他推向灭亡的最后一击。爱尔兰可能一直被称为“绿色伊甸园”，但在Jack Taylor的世界里，这个国家的颜色却有着致命的光泽。(LNL)

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About the Author/作者介绍： Ken Bruen 拥有玄学博士学位，在非洲教过英文，后成为一名犯罪小说作家。他著有十部Jack Taylor系列小说，是备受称赞的《白色三部曲》的作者，因《Priest》和《Bust》两度获Barry 奖，因《The Guards》和《The Dramatist》两度获Shamus 奖，曾两次提名Edgar 奖。现居爱尔兰高威。

Ken Bruen received a doctorate in metaphysics; taught English in Africa; and then became a crime novelist. The author of ten previous Jack Taylor novels and the critically acclaimed White Trilogy, he is the recipient of two Barry Awards, for Priest and Bust, two Shamus Awards, for The Guards and The Dramatist, and has twice been a finalist for the Edgar Award. He lives in Galway, Ireland.

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