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fadedrose

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12. THE GUARDS (2001) by Ken Bruen

Reply to DUgosh (Original post)

Tue Jan 22, 2013, 09:56 PM

Jan 2013

About Jack Taylor, dismissed from the Garda Síochána (Irish police) for drinking, now finding things for people in Galway, Ireland, since “private eye” sounds too much like “informer” to the Irish. First book in series of 9 so far.

http://www.stopyourekillingme.com/B_Authors/Bruen_Ken.html

5 of 2013

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