Jack Taylor’s Music: Ken Bruen’s The Guards
By Philipp Goedicke
July 4, 2011As fans of Ken Bruen’s books know, his writing is chock-full of external references. I’m guessing it’s one of the reasons the blurbs on the book jackets occasionally compare him to James Joyce, Irishness aside. Being a former grad student, I figured, why not chase down these references. So, I reread his debut in the…