Book description
Some people help the less fortunate. Others kill them.
Evil has many guises. Jack Taylor has encountered most of them but
nothing before has ever truly terrified him until a group called
Headstone rears its ugly head. An elderly priest is viciously beaten
until nearly dead. A special needs boy is brutally attacked. A series
of seemingly random, insane, violent events even has the Guards shaken.
Most would see a headstone as a marker of the dead, but this coterie
of evil intends to act as a death knell to every aspect of Jack's life
as an act of appalling violence alerts him to the horror enveloping
Galway.
Accepting the power of Headstone, Jack realizes that in order to
fight back he must relinquish the remaining shreds of what has made
him human - knowledge that may have come too late to prevent an act of
such ferocious evil that the whole country would be changed forever -
and in the worst way.
With awful clarity, Jack knows that not only might he be powerless
to stop it but that he may not have the grit needed to even face it.
Ken Bruen
was born in Galway, Ireland. After turning down a place at RADA, and
completing a doctorate in Metaphysics, he spent 25 years as an English
teacher in Africa, Japan, South East Asia and South America. An
unsheduled stint in a Brazilian prison where he suffered physical and
mental abuse spurred him to write and, after a brief spell teaching in
London, he returned to Galway, where he now lives with his daughter.
