CPI Archive 2008
BREATHLESS, he pulls his bike to the curb and glances one way, then the next. No one had seen, he was sure of it. With a school-girl giddiness belying each of his 30 odd years, Ken Bruen has a single moment of doubt — six times is enough. A seventh would just be vanity. Yet heedless of his own warning, he mounts his bike and pedals his way back down London’s Charing Cross Road. And there, as he knew it would be, centred in the Soho vista, lies the giant arched windows of Foyle’s bookshop. A sublimity in glass. “Shadows of Grace, a novel by Ken Bruen, I wonder what that’s about,” says an elderly woman to her husband. In that moment, Ken Bruen knew he had finally made it. But good news can travel slowly, and back home in Galway his father had other ideas. “I wrote my first novel when I was 26 and I’d say it sold about five copies. I wrote two more mainstream novels after that, which got good reviews but didn’t sell.
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