Reed Farrel Coleman and Ken Bruen Interview
**Brian clears throat and gets ready for Ed Gorman impersonation**
Brian here: Keith Rawson has been doing a fine job covering the recent events held at The Poisoned Pen. He attended Tuesday’s event (10/13/09) and has delivered again with a fine interview with Reed Farrel Coleman. While there he also interviewed Michael Connelly, whose interview will run here at BSC in the near future.
Coleman was out in support of his new novel, Tower, which was co-written as a collaborative effort with Ken Bruen. Keith also went the extra mile and conducted an interview with Bruen via email. This is a return performance at BSC for Bruen, as he was interviewed here back in 2006. Enjoy the 22-minute video interview with Reed Farrel Coleman, then continue below with the Ken Bruen interview.
Tower by Ken Bruen and Reed Farrel Coleman review
Tower tells of Nick and Todd, two best friends and fellow thugs-on-the-rise in the New York Irish mob. When word gets out that there’s a rat in the gang, friendship is tested and bad things happen.
Read why this book satisfied the Nerd of Noir like no other in recent weeks after the jump…
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Book Review – Sanctuary by Ken Bruen
The Nerd of Noir reviews the new Bruen book, Sanctuary.
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Book Review – Slide
Author: Ken Bruen, Jason Starr Cover Artist: Richard B. Farrell Publisher: Hard Case Crime Binding: Paperback Publication Date: October 2007 Max Fisher used to run a computer company; Angela Petrakos was his assistant and mistress. But that was last year. Now Max is reinventing himself as a hip-hop crack dealer and Angela’s back in Ireland, [...]
Book Review – The Hackman Blues
Author: Ken Bruen Publisher: The Do-Not Press Binding: Paperback Publication Date: 1998 A job of pure simplicity. Find a white girl in Brixton. Piece of cake. What I should have done is doubled my medication and lit a candle to St Jude – maybe a lot of candles. Add to the mixture a lethal ex-con, [...]
Book Review – Dispatching Baudelaire
Author: Ken Bruen Publisher: Sitric Books Binding: Paperback Publication Date: 2004 Throughout his life accountant Mike Shaw has played it safe, kept his head down, and avoided risk. His girlfriend, Brenda, is a secretary and their idea of a night on the town is to visit the local pizza parlor. But when Mike meets Laura [...]
Book Review – Her Last Call to Louis Macneice
Author: Ken Bruen Publisher: Five Star Books Binding: Paperback Publication Date: 2005 Cooper had done his time for GBH. Now he was on the outside, he’d set up a legit business with Doc whom he’d met in prison. They called themselves ‘Righteous Repo’ and they even had an accountant. The Repo firm did good business [...]
Book Review – Cross
Author: Ken Bruen Publisher: St. Martin’s Press Binding: Paperback Publication Date: 2007 A boy has been crucified in Galway city. People are shocked; the broadsheets debate what this says about the state of the nation; the Irish Church is scandalized. No further action is taken When the sister of the murdered boy is burned alive, [...]
Book Review – Ammunition
Author: Ken Bruen Publisher: St. Martin’s Press Binding: Paperback Publication Date: July, 2007 Over the many years that Inspector Brant has been bringing his own patented brand of policing to the streets of southeast London, the brilliant but tough cop has made a few enemies. So when a crazed gunman, hired by persons unknown, pumps [...]
Book Review – Priest
Author: Ken Bruen Publisher: St. Martin’s Press Binding: Hardcover Publication Date: May 2007 Ireland, awash in cash and greed, no longer turns to the church for solace or comfort. But the decapitation of Father Joyce in a Galway church horrifies even the most jaded citizen. Jack Taylor, devastated by the recent trauma of personal loss, [...]
Book Review – A Fifth of Bruen
Author: Ken Bruen Publisher: Busted Flush Binding: Paperback Publication Date: May 2006 A Fifth of Bruen is an omnibus edition that collects all of Ken Bruen’s early work in one volume. It contains the four novellas: Funeral: Takes of Irish Morbidities Shades of Grace Martyrs All the Old Songs and Nothing to Lose The two [...]
