Blitz A Novel [Paperback]

The South East London police squad are down and out: Detective Sergeant Brant is in hot water for assaulting a police shrink, Chief Inspector Roberts' wife has died in a horrific car accident, and WPC Falls is still figuring out how to navigate her job as a black female investigator in the notorious unit. When a serial killer takes his show on the road, things get worse for all three. Nicknamed The Blitz by the rabid London media, the killer is aiming for tabloid immortality by killing cops in different beats around the city.

Blitzrepresents Ken Bruen at his edgy, lethal, and sharp-tongued best, and will reward fans of his Jack Taylor novels with another astonishing, smart, and brutal vision from a writer rapidly becoming one of the best of his generation.

Intelligent, uncompromising hard-boiled crime. Publishers Weekly

Bruen's staccato style ... is all his own. Kirkus Reviews?

Satisfyingly plotted. Booklist

Ken Bruenspent twenty-five years as an English teacher in Africa, Japan, Southeast Asia, and South America. His first Jack Taylor novel,The Guards, is a finalist of the 2003 Best Novel Edgar Award.

If you like Ian Rankin, Dennis Lehane, Pelecanos, and the like, Bruen is definitely a writer to reckon with.
--Denver Post

Bruen is an original, grimly hilarious and gloriously Irish. I await the further adventures of the incorrigible Jack Taylor.
--Patrick Anderson,The Washington Post