It's early in The Killing of the Tinkers, Jack Taylor has just been beaten up, and his client/employer asks what happened:"They surprise you?"Bruen's characters don't applaud their own wit or the author's. This makes the dialogue less stand-up yuk fest, more real conversation, and all the funnier and more poignant for it. Bruen adds a clever spin on slightly different meanings of surprise, so you know the man is a nimble wordsmith as well.
"They bloody amazed me."
That's how Ken Bruen does it; what do you think about the touchy combination of humor and crime? When does it work? When doesn't it? What are your favorite examples?
© Peter Rozovsky 2010
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