Seems impossible, but Jack Taylor is sober---off booze, pills, powder, and nearly off cigarettes, too. The main reason heŐs been able to keep clean: his dealerŐs in jail, which leaves Jack without a source. When that dealer calls him to Dublin and asks a favor in the soiled, sordid visiting room of Mountjoy Prison, Jack wants to tell him to take a flying leap. But he doesnŐt, canŐt, because the dealerŐs sister is dead, and the guards have called it "death by misadventure.Ó
The dealer knows that canŐt be true and begs Jack to have a look, check around, see what he can find out. ItŐs exactly what Jack does, with varying levels of success, to make a living. But heŐs reluctant, maybe because of whoŐs asking or maybe because of the bad feeling growing in his gut.
Never one to give in to bad feelings or common sense, Jack agrees to the favor, though he canŐt possibly know the shocking, deadly consequences he has set in motion. But he and everyone he holds dear will find out soon, sooner than anyone knows, in the lean and lethal fourth entry in Ken BruenŐs award-winning Jack Taylor series.