Dispatching Baudelaire

Dispatching Baudelaire is about what can happen to the blandest of men when he is seduced by money, power and sex. As we follow Mike on his journey to the heart of darkness, we come to discover that there are few more dangerous animals than an Englishman off balance.

A soul-mate of Jim Thompson’s, or maybe of James M.Cain’s, he has a cast of characters which rates high on the deadbeat scale.’ – Irish Times ‘Blurring different styles and genre traits is not only necessary for fiction to evolve and remain relevant, but it also makes for a damn exciting read … Bruen’s books are like odd architectural wonders, stark, strangely unsettling, beautifully classical, yet wholly modern.’ – Crime Factory ‘Bruen is an original, grimly hilarious and gloriously Irish.’ – Patrick Anderson, Washington Post

KEN BRUEN was born in Galway in 1951. He spent twenty-five years as an English teacher in Africa, Japan, South-East Asia and South America. His writing changed direction after he was tortured during a four-month stint in a Brazilian prison. A film of his novel Her Last Call to Louis MacNeice is currently in production for Pilgrim Pictures, and his White Trilogy (A White Arrest, Taming the Alien and The McDead) has been bought for television by Deep Indigo Productions. He has a PhD in Metaphysics. In 1995 he was a finalist for the First Blood Award for Best First crime Novel.