{"product_id":"9780802127334","title":"The Ghosts of Galway","description":"\u003cp\u003eKen Bruen is a singular voice in crime fiction “with his ear for lilting Irish prose and his taste for the kind of gallows humor heard only at the foot of the gallows” ( \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e ). In \u003ci\u003eThe Ghosts of Galway\u003c\/i\u003e , he brings those elegiac talents to bear on a case involving a famously blasphemous red book and Bruen’s equally profane antihero Jack Taylor.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs well-versed in politics, pop culture, and crime fiction as he is ill-fated in life, Jack Taylor is recovering from a mistaken medical diagnosis and a failed suicide attempt. In need of money, and with former cop on his resume, Jack has been hired as a night-shift security guard. But his Ukrainian boss has Jack in mind for a bit of off-the-books work. He wants Jack to find what some claim to be the first true book of heresy, \u003ci\u003eThe Red Book\u003c\/i\u003e , currently in the possession of a rogue priest who is hiding out in Galway after fleeing a position at the Vatican. Despite Jack’s distaste for priests of any stripe, the money is too good to turn down. Em, the many-faced woman who has had a vise on Jack’s heart and mind for the past two years, reappears and turns out to be entangled with the story of \u003ci\u003eThe Red Book\u003c\/i\u003e , too, leading Jack down ever more mysterious and lethal pathways.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt seems all sides are angling for a piece of Jack Taylor, but as \u003ci\u003eThe Ghosts of Galway\u003c\/i\u003e twists toward a violent end, he is increasingly plagued by ghosts—by the disposable and disposed of in a city filled with as much darkness as the deepest corners of Jack’s own mind.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Grove Atlantic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47030465888496,"sku":"9780802127334","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780802127334_p0.jpg?v=1763727187","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780802127334","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}