Dispatching Baudelaire
By Ken Bruen
2004
First Published
3.43
Average Rating
144
Number of Pages
Throughout his life accountant Mike Shaw has played it safe, kept his head down, and avoided risk. But when Mike meets Laura in a bar off The Strand, their lives are irrevocably changed. Small, sexy, smart—and utterly dangerous—Laura instantly spellbinds Mike and leads him into a world of moral depravity, dominated by the sinister presence of her powerful and rich father, Harold Benton. Dispatching Baudelaire is about what can happen to the blandest of men when he is seduced by money, power and sex...
Avg Rating
3.43
Number of Ratings
167
5 STARS
19%
4 STARS
31%
3 STARS
29%
2 STARS
17%
1 STARS
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Author
Ken Bruen
Author · 41 books
Ken Bruen, born in Galway in 1951, is the author of The Guards (2001), the highly acclaimed first Jack Taylor novel. He spent twenty-five years as an English teacher in Africa, Japan, S.E. Asia and South America. His novel Her Last Call to Louis Mac Niece (1997) is in production for Pilgrim Pictures, his "White Trilogy" has been bought by Channel 4, and The Guards is to be filmed in Ireland by De Facto Films. He has won Two Shamus awards by Private Eye Writers of America for the best detective fiction genre novel of the year for The Guards(2004) and The Dramatist(2007). He has also received The Best series Award in February 2007 for the Jack Taylor novels from The Crime Writers Association
