Declan Burke has published a number of novels, the most recent being ABSOLUTE ZERO COOL, which won the Goldsboro Last Laugh Award 2012 and was shortlisted in the crime fiction category at the Irish Book Awards 2011. As a journalist and critic, he writes and broadcasts on books and film for a variety of media outlets, including the Irish Times, RTE, the Irish Examiner and the Sunday Independent. The unfortunate affliction of speaking of himself in the third person will soon pass. All views expressed here are very likely to be contrary.
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Sunday, June 28, 2009

Ride with THE DEVIL

David Thompson is running a series of interviews with TOWER collaborators Ken Bruen (right) and Reed Farrel Coleman – with the added bonus of a waffle or three from Allan Guthrie, who was the editor on the project – over at the Busted Flush interweb yokeybus. Craig McDonald is the man with the rubber hose, and in the first interview – with Sir Kenneth of Bruen – he elicited some intriguing stuff, not least of which is the mention – unsubstantiated by Ken – of a forthcoming memoir. To wit:
  CM: What’s next for you? There are rumours of a rather different kind of Jack Taylor novel, and of a memoir dated for release this year…
  KB: “The new Jack Taylor is finished and titled … THE DEVIL. And it deals with, yup, the supernatural. Scared the hell outta me. Not going down that road again.”
  Hmmm – an ex-cop private eye dabbling in the supernatural? Sounds like a Charlie Parker / Jack Taylor smack-down is in the post.
  Over to you, folks. In a no-holds-barred bar-fight, who’s walking away a winner: Jack Taylor or Charlie Parker?

2 comments:

Peter Rozovsky said...

I don't know about supernatural smackdowns, but Jack Taylor's creator take religion seriously -- Priest, Cross, Sanctuary -- and not just as an easy target. It's no great surprise that the man is taking a further step into the dark side.
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Helga said...

Charlie Parker will walk away the winner... (sometimes he even gets a little help from his friends;-) )