Ken Bruen auf dem Krimifestival in Marburg

Tuesday, 14.09.2010 20:00 clock Ken Bruen tells of episodes from the life of Jack Taylor Location: Technology and conference center Marburg (Software Center 3, 35037 Marburg) Ken Bruen reads passages from the first two Jack Taylor Murder Jack Taylor knocked out: As a police officer lurking Jack Taylor - all with a thermos of coffee with a shot of brandy armed - on traffic offenders. As a black Mercedes thunder past him, he stops the car. The rear window slides down.On the bench sits a top government official of the Ministry of Finance. And Jack strikes.  then flies out Taylor. And continues as a private investigator. He moves into his new "office" in Grogan's, the only pub in Galway, where he has never had the premises. Actually a serious place for serious drinking. But soon Jack has his first case on the cheek. Jack Taylor is wrong: After Jack Taylor got kicked out of the police and has served as a private investigator more damage than the criminals he was trying to make, he has crumbled to London. His "investigation" had led to at least three to four murders, several broken hearts and a big chunk of cash. But London does not keep what it has never promised. Instead of a posh apartment with park views Jack ends up in a heated cubicle in a condemned neighborhood now returning Jack Taylor back with two achievements of Ireland: a new leather jacket and a full-blown coke addiction. As soon as he arrived in Galway, asks him to help a country driver: "You kill our people." A new case - joined to a few pints later, a second: The Claddagh Basin are butchered at night swans. Jack is back home. And gets to work. Ken Bruen © Andrew Downes Ken Bruen: Ken Bruen was born in 1951, obtained his doctorate at Trinity College in Dublin on metaphysics. He worked 25 years as an English teacher in Africa, Japan, Southeast Asia and South America, until he began to write and has won numerous awards including the prestigious Shamus Award, which he was awarded two times. Jack Taylor flies out is published in Russia, the USA, Italy, Denmark and Japan.Ken Bruen lives in Galway.