Jack Taylor thinks he has a chance at last to rest and heal from the myriad mental and physical traumas that beset him. However, after a skateboarder long suspected of dealing drugs to children is shot dead in mid-air during a public performance, Jack receives a crytic message with a picture of the skateboarder, a clipping about a rapist gone free through procedural error, and a chilling invitation: Your turn. The note is signed simply C 33. From the author considered among the most original and innovative noir voices of the last two decades (Los Angeles Times Book Review) comes a mystery as labyrinthine as any Jack has yet encountered-and perhaps even more deadly. Purgatory is Ken Bruen at his best: lyrical, brutal, and ceaselessly suspenseful.