Jack Taylor is recovering from a mistaken medical diagnosis & a failed suicide attempt In need of money & with former cop on his resume Jack has been hired as a night-shift security guard But his Ukrainian boss has Jack in mind for some off-the-books work He wants Jack to find what some claim to be the first true book of heresy The Red Book currently in the hands of a rogue priest who is hiding out in Galway after fleeing a position at the Vatican Despite Jack's distaste for priests of any stripe the money is too good to turn down Em the many-faced woman who has had a vice on Jack's heart & mind for the past two years reappears & turns out to be entangled with the story of The Red Book too leading Jack down ever more mysterious & lethal pathways It seems all sides are angling for a piece of Jack Taylor but his is a man increasingly plagued by ghosts
- by the disposable & disposed of in a city filled with as much darkness as the deepest corners of Jack's own mind