Publisher's Synopsis
First title in a new series introducing Jack Taylor, a disgraced ex-cop from Galway. Mourning the death of his father, Jack is slowly drinking himself into oblivion when he is asked to investigate a teenage suicide. Plunged into a dangerous confrontation with a powerful businessman and with the Irish police - The Guards - who have an unhealthy interest in Jack's past, he finds all is not as simple as it at first seemed and a dark conspiracy unfolds.
