<p>Jack Taylor thinks he has a chance at last to rest and heal from the myriad mental and physical traumas that beset him. However, after a skateboarder long suspected of dealing drugs to children is shot dead in mid-air during a public performance, Jack receives a crytic message with a picture of the skateboarder, a clipping about a rapist gone free through procedural error, and a chilling invitation: “Your turn.” The note is signed simply “C 33.”<br /><br /></p><p>From the author considered “among the most original and innovative noir voices of the last two decades” (<i>Los Angeles Times Book Review</i>) comes a mystery as labyrinthine as any Jack has yet encountered—and perhaps even more deadly. <i>Purgatory</i> is Ken Bruen at his best: lyrical, brutal, and ceaselessly suspenseful.</p>