Ken Bruen

This man is a total genius! Beautiful, beautiful sentences, weird literary sensibility, sort of like the perfect cross between Dick Francis and Derek Raymond (all right, that's a bit of a joke, but not really--there is something very appealing about this Jack Taylor character). I've just read The Guards, The Killing of the Tinkers and The Magdalen Martyrs; the voice of reason tells me now to go to bed, but I have a strong feeling I'm going to stay up and read the fourth one instead.