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

Once Were Cops Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 294 pages

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

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Read this one in an afternoon. It was very dark and pretty depressing- not much to get excited about.

2.5* Underwhelming. Ken Bruen seems to have written this by rote. Least favourite of Bruen's books i have read.

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.

Just incredible, hope to write a full review shortly.

Very dark book, definitely not my cup of tea. It was one of those books I wish I stopped reading after several pages but couldn't put down because I wanted to know what happened. It wasn't terrible, but I didn't like it. I just wish I didn't pick it up in the first place. I picked it up feeling enthusiastic and put it down feeling very, very depressed.

I like Ken Bruen's work usually and to a point I liked this.However...he certainly wasn't filled with the milk of human kindness when he wrote this.Two too many innocent victims,and a crummy ending,one of those Deus Ex Machina things that I hate,also"STAY TUNED FOR THE STUNNING SEQUEL(s)"to this.

In "Once Were Cops", Michael O'Shea - an officer in Ireland's police force, the Guards - comes to New York City as part of a law enforcement exchange program. Shea, as he's known, isn't just an ambitious cop, however, he's also a serial sex killer.It doesn't take long for Shea to be partnered with Kebar, a vicious brute among New York's Finest, and soon, the two are making arrests and bulldozing their way through the city's criminal class. Shea even manages to begin suppressing his homicidal