"As well-versed in politics, pop culture, and crime fiction as he is ill-fated in life, Jack Taylor is recovering from a mistaken medical diagnosis and a failed suicide attempt. In need of money, and 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 a bit of off-the-books work. He wants Jack to find what some claim to be the first true book of heresy, The Red Book, currently...

Denied entry into the United States after a seemingly chance encounter with an overtly friendly stranger at an airport bar, Jack Taylor investigates the murder of a student that brings the stranger's identity into question.

With his surrogate son, Cody, in a hospital in a coma, a troubled Jack Taylor takes the opportunity to assist Ridge, his old friend from the Guards, with a horrific case involving the crucifixion slaying of a boy in Galway.