Ken Bruen has been called "Hard to resist, with his aching Irish heart, silvery tongue, and bleak noir sensibility" ( ). His prose is as characteristically sharp as his outlook in the latest jack taylor novel,. After muc...Ken Bruen has been called "Hard to resist, with his aching Irish heart, silvery tongue, and bleak noir sensibility" ( ). His prose is as characteristically sharp as his outlook in the latest jack taylor novel,. After much tragedy and violence, jack taylor has at long last landed at contentment.