Calibre, Ken Bruen
Calibre, Ken Bruen
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Calibre

Author: Ken Bruen

Narrator: Gerard Doyle

Unabridged: 3 hr 50 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/01/2010


Synopsis

Somewhere in the teeming heart of London is a man on a lethal mission. His cause: a long-overdue lesson on the importance of manners. When a man gives a public tongue-lashing to a misbehaving child, or a parking lot attendant is rude to a series of customers, the “Manners Killer” makes sure that the next thing either sees is the beginning of his own grisly end.When she starts mailing letters to the Southeast London police squad, he’ll soon find out just how bad a man’s manners can get. The Southeast is dominated by the perpetual sneer of one Inspector Brant, and while he might or might nor agree with the killer’s cause and can even forgive his tactics to some degree, Brant is just ornery enough to employ his trademark brand of amoral, borderline-criminal policing to the hunt for the Manners Killer. For if there’s one thing that drives the incomparable inspector, it’s the unshakable conviction that if anyone is going to be getting away with murder on his patch, it’ll be Brant himself, thank you very much.

About Ken Bruen

Ken Bruen, the critically acclaimed author of the Jack Taylor series and The White Trilogy, is the recipient of two Barry Awards and two Shamus Awards and has twice been a finalist for the Edgar Award.

About Gerard Doyle

Gerard Doyle was born of Irish parents and was raised and educated in England. He has appeared in London’s West End and on Broadway and toured with the English Shakespeare Company. A seasoned narrator of audiobooks, he has been awarded more than thirty AudioFile Earphones Awards and in 2007 won the prestigious Audie Award.


Reviews

Goodreads review by John

I love reading Ken Bruen's books: the pages turn in a flicker, so fast that the edges smolder; I laugh and I cry and all the things you're supposed to do. The trouble is that, a few hours later, I can remember very little of what I've read. This is no damning criticism. I could say much the same abou......more

Goodreads review by Kathy

Sixth in the Inspector Brant crime-suspense series based in a London police precinct and revolving around its policemen and women, Inspector Brant in particular. Award: Shamus My Take I gotta confess, I am beginning to wonder about Falls...I've been crossing my fingers for her from the start, but in th......more

Goodreads review by Patrick

Every summer I reread all of Robert Parker's Spenser books (and Jesse Stone and Sunny Randall). The people at the library are always bemused at the sight of me returning a big stack of them mere days after checking them out. I always explain that it takes about two hours tops to read a Parker book.......more


Quotes

“Bruen’s furious hard-boiled prose, chopped down to its trademark essence, never fails to astonish.” Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Brant’s passion for classic crime fiction—with frequent references to works by Charles Willeford, Jim Thompson, Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, et al—and the abundance of priceless hard-boiled one-liners throughout make Bruen’s Inspector Brant novel a down-and-dirty neo-noir gem.  Barnes & Noble, editorial review