Ken bruen biography

Ken Bruen (born 1951) is an Irish writer of hard-boiled and noir crime fiction . Born in Galway, he was educated at Gormanston College, County Meath and later at Trinity College Dublin, where he earned a PhD in metaphysics.

Detective Sergeant Tom Brant and Chief Inspector James Roberts 1 A White Arrest (1998) 2 Taming the Alien (1999) 3 The McDead (2000) 4 Blitz (2002), adapted for the 2011 British crime thriller film Blitz starring Jason Statham 5 Vixen (2003) 6 Calibre (2006) 7 Ammunition (2007)

It chronicles the social change in Ireland in Bruen's own lifetime, paying particular attention to the decline of the Catholic Church as a social and political power.

Set in Galway, the series relates the adventures and misadventures of a disgraced former police officer working as a haphazard private investigator whose life has been marred by alcoholism and drug abuse.