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Original Title:	Once Were Cops
ISBN:	0312384408 (ISBN13: 9780312384401)
Edition Language:	English

Once Were Cops

Ken Bruen

Paperback | Pages: 294 pages

Rating: 3.86 | 992 Users | 100 Reviews

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Title	:	Once Were Cops
Author	:	Ken Bruen
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 294 pages
Published	:	October 28th 2008 by Minotaur Books
Categories	:	Mystery. Crime. Fiction. Noir. Cultural. Ireland. Thriller. European Literature. Irish Literature

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Michael O'Shea is a member of Ireland's police force, known as The Guards. He's also a sociopath who walks a knife edge between sanity and all-out mayhem. When an exchange program is initiated and twenty Guards come to America and twenty cops from the States go to Ireland, Shay, as he's known, has his lifelong dream come true--he becomes a member of the NYPD. But Shay's dream is about to become New York's nightmare.

Paired with an unstable cop nicknamed Kebar for his liberal use of a short, lethal metal stick called a K-bar, the two unlikely partners become a devastatingly effective force in the war against crime.

But Kebar harbors a dangerous secret: he's sold out to the mob to help his sister. Her rape and beating leaves her in a coma and pushes an already unstable Kebar over the edge just as Shea's dark secrets threaten boil over and into the streets of New York.

Once Were Cops melds the street poetry of Brooklyn and Dublin into a fast-paced, incomparable hard-boiled novel. This is Ken Bruen at his best.

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Ratings: 3.86 From 992 Users | 100 Reviews

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no character development at all really. reads more like a made for tv movie script than a real book. took about 3 hours to read and that was 2 long to waste on it.

I missed the nostalgia, Galway streets and Irish melancholy. All that was left were some crime cliches, relentless brutality and weak ending. I enjoyed Jack Taylor cameo, though.

The One Sentence Summary: An Irish cop, who is also a serial killer, gets transferred to the NYPD in an exchange program and is partnered up with an unstable cop under the thumb of the mob.The Meat and Potatoes: Matthew Patrick OShea has a violent personality and dreams of more action than he can find as a member of Irelands police force, patrolling the streets of Galway. Less than innocently, he finagles his way into an exchange program with the United States and is assigned to New York City.

Y'know, I loved the terse and quick-moving prose. A good plot, it was plenty brutal, and the dialogue was only a little hokey. The climax was anti, though, and the ending was no ending. If it was supposed to whet my appetite for a sequel, it, well, didn't. My first try with this author, and by most accounts this doesn't seem like the one to start with.

Didn't like the writting style.

A multi dimensional look at the hidden desires of a sociopath and the coping mechanisms employed to contain (perhaps more apt, cover-up) the insatiable urges.OShea a former Guard is transferred to NY where he quickly rises to prominence on the force after saving his partners life during a domestic abuse call-out. OSheas partner Kabar forever in his debt tries to buddy up with OShea and accidentally gets him caught up in his extra circular activities with a mob boss. Short lived, Kabar tries to

Shay is an Irish member of The Guard who comes to Gotham in a cop exchange program. What NY doesn't know if that he is a complete psycho who likes pretty white necks. He is teamed up with a brutal NY detective named Kbar for the frequent use of a metal baton that he viciously wields. Together they instill fear wherever they go, and put away a lot of bad guys. But when Shay learns that Kbar is compromised by the mob, things take an even uglier turn. To say this is a "dark" one is an