Her Last Call to Louis MacNeice

By Ken Bruen

She's hot, well read, and absolutely mad -- and she won't let him go.

Bank robber Cooper picks her up at the supermarket, where he spies her shoplifting and warns her that the store detective is watching her. She puts the stolen food back, and he buys her lunch. It's the worst mistake he's ever made.

What this pretty young American girl is doing in South London is a mystery to him. Her name is Cassie, and she acts sane until they get home. She's normal as he takes her clothes off, normal for everything that follows, normal until she tells him that now that he's touched her, he can never have another woman. He thinks it's a joke until he wakes up and finds her note, which explains that she drugged him and left with his pistol and some of the money he's made holding up banks. Only death will keep her away, so death it must be.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Head of Zeus
• Release date: Jun 1, 2014
• ISBN: 9781784083250

Ken Bruen

Ken Bruen has been a finalist for the Edgar and Anthony Awards, and has won a Macavity Award, a Barry Award, and two Shamus Awards for the Jack Taylor series. He is also the author of the Inspector Brant series. Several of Bruen's novels have been adapted for the screen: The first six Jack Taylor novels were adapted into a television series starring Iain Glen; Blitz was adapted into a movie starring Jason Statham; and London Boulevard was adapted into a film starring Colin Farrell and Keira Knightley. Bruen lives in Galway, Ireland.

Reviews for Her Last Call to Louis MacNeice

[antao-3 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

There's just something about Ken's writing and his characters that reaches into me...
There's not much to speak of in terms of plot, but I was so caught up with Bruen's storytelling and voice that it obliterated everything else. There's no story? No big deal. The characters are an archetype? Most of them are, at their core. But the voice, the sheer, barely concealed rage of it, is what grabbes me.

Ken Bruen is still writing some of the most original, noir, gritty and visceral crime fiction there is about at the moment.

Hard-Boil at its best.
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