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Stephan Talty


STEPHAN TALTY is a widely published journalist who has contributed to The New York Times Magazine, GQ, Men’s Journal, Time Out New York, Details, and many other publications. He is the New York Times bestselling author of Empire of Blue Water and Mulatto America: At the Crossroads of Black and White Culture.

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Black Irish
Written by Stephan Talty

Hardcover | 336 pages | Ballantine Books | Fiction - Thrillers; Fiction - Suspense; Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Hard-Boiled
978-0-345-53806-2 (0-345-53806-4)

February 26, 2013 | $31.00

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Black Irish
Written by Stephan Talty

Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780345538062
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In this explosive debut thriller by the New York Times bestselling author of Empire of Blue Water, a brilliant homicide detective returns home, where she confronts a city’s dark demons and her own past while pursuing a brutal serial killer on a vengeful rampage.

Absalom “Abbie” Kearney grew up an outsider in...

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Black Irish
Written by Stephan Talty

eBook | 368 pages | Ballantine Books | Fiction - Thrillers; Fiction - Suspense; Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Hard-Boiled
978-0-345-53887-1 (0-345-53887-0)

February 26, 2013 | $13.99

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Black Irish
Written by Stephan Talty

Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780345538871
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In this explosive debut thriller by the New York Times bestselling author of Empire of Blue Water, a brilliant homicide detective returns home, where she confronts a city’s dark demons and her own past while pursuing a brutal serial killer on a vengeful rampage.

Absalom “Abbie” Kearney grew up an outsider in...

Also available as an unabridged audiobook download and a hardcover.

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Black Irish

Unabridged Audiobook Download | pages | Random House Audio | Fiction - Thrillers; Fiction - Suspense; Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Hard-Boiled
978-0-385-36076-0 (0-385-36076-2)

February 26, 2013 | $24.00

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Black Irish
Written by Stephan Talty, Read by David H. Lawrence XVII

Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
ISBN: 9780385360760
Our Price: $24.00


In this explosive debut thriller by the New York Times bestselling author of Empire of Blue Water, a brilliant homicide detective returns home, where she confronts a city’s dark demons and her own past while pursuing a brutal serial killer on a vengeful rampage.

Absalom “Abbie” Kearney grew up an outsider in...

Also available as an eBook and a hardcover.

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Empire of Blue Water
Written by Stephan Talty

Trade Paperback | 352 pages | Broadway | History - Caribbean & West Indies; Biography & Autobiography - Criminals & Outlaws
978-0-307-23661-6 (0-307-23661-7)

April 22, 2008 | $18.00

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Empire of Blue Water
Written by Stephan Talty

Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780307236616
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A May 2007 Book Sense Pick

“Talty’s vigorous history of seventeenth-century pirates of the Caribbean will sate even fickle Jack Sparrow fans. . . . A pleasure to read from bow to stern.”
—Entertainment Weekly

The passion and violence of the age of exploration and empire come to vivid life in this story...


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Empire of Blue Water
Written by Stephan Talty

eBook | pages | Broadway | History - Caribbean & West Indies; Biography & Autobiography - Criminals & Outlaws
978-0-307-38275-7 (0-307-38275-3)

April 17, 2007 | $11.99

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Empire of Blue Water
Written by Stephan Talty

Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307382757
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He challenged the greatest empire on earth with a ragtag bunch of renegades—and brought it to its knees. Empire of Blue Water is the real story of the pirates of the Caribbean.

Henry Morgan, a twenty-year-old Welshman, crossed the Atlantic in 1655, hell-bent on making his fortune. Over the next three decades...