Ken Bruen

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Ken Bruen (3 January 1951 – 29 March 2025) was an Irish writer of hardboiled and noir crime fiction. Born in Galway on 3 January 1951, he was educated at Gormanston College, County Meath and later at Trinity College Dublin, where he earned a PhD in metaphysics. Bruen spent twenty-five years as an English teacher in Africa, Japan, S.E. Asia and South America. His travels were hazardous at times, including a stint in a Brazilian jail. Bruen was part of a literary circle that also included Jason Starr, Reed Farrel Coleman, and Allan Guthrie. His works included the well-received White Trilogy and The Guards. In 2006, Hard Case Crime released Bust, a collaboration between Bruen and New York crime author Jason Starr. Bruen's short story "Words Are Cheap" (2006) appears in the first issue of Murdaland. He also edited an anthology of stories set in Dublin, Dublin Noir. Jack Taylor's informant, named China, was a nod of the head by Ken Bruen to author Alan Hunter's original informant character named China, in the George Gently series of novels, first published in 1955.