Zitat des Tages von Ken Bruen:
The tourist board have put a bounty on me head, but they like the biz from tourists.
Whenever dark things happen in my life, there is always some dark humour.
I always had this notion of a noir novel in Galway. The city is exploding, emigration has reversed, and we are fast becoming a cosmopolitan city.
After five awful movies, I admitted failure and said I was not cut out to be an actor. But how many people get a chance to live their dream?
My own life has had so many twists that I keep thinking I'll have one blessing that is not in disguise.
The only book in our home was the Bible. My parents forbade books. They thought I needed help because I wanted to be a writer!
Jack Taylor was a private investigator in Galway, which seemed like madness. I used lots of Galway-isms, which seemed like madness, too.
We haven't had crime writers, and for a long time in the Republic, we didn't seem to have a crime problem as such.
Because I've been so bad at looking after myself, how would I ever look after a kid? But the old cliche applied: they handed her to me, and my world turned upside down - and I realised I was now going to be vulnerable in more ways than I expected.
