Once Were Cops

ONCE WERE COPS - Ken Bruen

Author Information
Book Title: 
Once Were Cops
Author Name: 
Ken Bruen
Author's Home Country: 
Ireland
ISBN: 
9780312384401
Categorisation
Category: 
Crime Fiction
Location: 
USA
Publisher: 
St Martins Minotaur
Year of Publication: 
2008

Michael O'Shea is a member of Ireland's police force, known as the Guards.  He's also a sociopath who walks a knife-edge between sanity and all-out mayhem.  When an exchange program is initiated and twenty Guards come to America and twenty cops from the States go to Ireland, Shea, as he's known, has his lifelong dream come true - he becomes a member of the NYPD.  But Shea's dream is about to become New York's nightmare.

Book Review: 

Where Do I Begin?

Ken Bruen writes in his own form of poetry.

The words pull no punches.

His characters make no apologies.

They will do as the damn well please and sometimes there are simply not enough good guys to go around.

You think.

It's hard to tell who is a good guy and who isn't.

ONCE WERE COPS isn't going to be a novel for everyone.

It's hard, bad, dark, violent, unapologetic, difficult and complex.

There are no winners and there are lots of losers.

Don't read it if you want a happy ending (or a neatly tied off resolution for that matter).

Do read it if you like a walk on the dark side.

Do read it if you're looking for something outside the box.

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Book Title: 
Once Were Cops
Author Name: 
Ken Bruen

I will confess right now, I love Ken Bruen when he's writing that sparse, cut down, terse, lyrical, moving, disturbing fantastic prose that he does.  ONCE WERE COPS is one of those books - and I couldn't wait to read it.

From the Blurb:

Michael O'Shea is a member of Ireland's police force, known as the Guards.  He's also a sociopath who walks a knife-edge between sanity and all-out mayhem.

Opening Lines:

"Where Do I Begin?"

Wasn't that like a song?

And a pretty fucking bad one?

Like my story.

ONCE WERE COPS - Ken Bruen

Author Information
Book Title: 
Once Were Cops
Author Name: 
Ken Bruen
Author's Home Country: 
Ireland
ISBN: 
9780312384401
Categorisation
Category: 
Crime Fiction
Location: 
USA
Publisher: 
St Martins Minotaur
Year of Publication: 
2008

Michael O'Shea is a member of Ireland's police force, known as the Guards.  He's also a sociopath who walks a knife-edge between sanity and all-out mayhem.  When an exchange program is initiated and twenty Guards come to America and twenty cops from the States go to Ireland, Shea, as he's known, has his lifelong dream come true - he becomes a member of the NYPD.  But Shea's dream is about to become New York's nightmare.

Book Review: 

WOW!! A wow book. What is a wow book? A wow book is a book that has you glued to the pages, resenting every interruption. A wow book sees your hubby putting his head around the bedroom door saying, “aren’t you getting up today?” A wow book finds you lying in the bathtub and realising with a jolt you’ve been in there so long reading this book that the water has nearly gone cold.
 
ONCE WERE COPS by Ken Bruen is a WOW book.  
 
No one could ever in their wildest dreams describe Bruen’s writing as cozy. Bruen is contemporary noir. Midnight noir.. His writing is to the point and punchy in every sense of the word. Pick up a Ken Bruen novel and you’re hooked.  I guarantee your bath-water will be ice-cold before you know it.
 
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