Synopses & Reviews
This knockout punch of a thriller from a critically acclaimed author follows a young Cuban detectives quest for vengeance against her fathers killer in a Colorado mountain town A man is killed in a hit-and-run on a frozen mountain road in the town of Fairview, Colorado. He is an illegal immigrant in a rich Hollywood resort community not unlike Telluride. No one is prosecuted for his death and his case is quietly forgotten.
Six months later another illegal makes a treacherous run across the border. Barely escaping with her life and sanity intact, she finds work as a maid with one of the employment agencies in Fairview. Secretly, she begins to investigate the shadowy collision that left her father dead.
The maid isnt a maid. And shes not Mexican, either. Shes Detective Mercado, a police officer from Havana, and shes looking for answers: Who killed her father? Was it one of the smooth- talking Hollywood types? Was it a minion of the terrifying county sheriff? And why was her father, a celebrated defector to the United States, hiding in Colorado as the town ratcatcher?
Adrian McKintys live-wire prose crackles with intensity as we follow Mercado through the swells of emotion and violence that lead up to a final shocking confrontation.
Review
“Adrian McKinty [is] … a master of modern noir, up there with Dennis Lehane and James Ellroy…. Fifty Grand is a blast: a standalone effort which again showcases McKinty's brutal lyricism as well as his sensitivity to the indignities of the immigrant experience.”—The Guardian (UK)
"An intelligent novel of suspense about cultural identity. . . . In trademark fashion, McKinty winds up his provocative tale with a violent and memorable final act."—Publishers Weekly
"The talented McKinty does his usual first-rate job of making you like the characters he likes."—Kirkus Reviews
"Adrian McKinty has been blowing us out of the mystery water for quite some time now, but phew-oh, he has totally taken over the whole field with Fifty Grand. Think Don Winslows masterly Power of the Dog combined with José Latour and the sheer narrative drive of Joe Lansdale and youll have some idea of this amazing novel. It has riveting mystery, politics of just about every shade and thrills on almost every page. I've rarely read a novel that had it all—human and drug trafficking, Hollywood excesses, ferocious vengeance—but what I found most compulsive was the wondrous compassion of the book. It moved me in ways I never anticipated. This is going to be the BIG BOOK of 2009."—Ken Bruen, author of The Guards and Once Were Cops
Review
“Adrian McKinty [is] … a master of modern noir, up there with Dennis Lehane and James Ellroy…. Fifty Grand is a blast: a standalone effort which again showcases McKinty's brutal lyricism as well as his sensitivity to the indignities of the immigrant experience.”The Guardian (UK)
"An intelligent novel of suspense about cultural identity. . . . In trademark fashion, McKinty winds up his provocative tale with a violent and memorable final act."Publishers Weekly
"The talented McKinty does his usual first-rate job of making you like the characters he likes."Kirkus Reviews
"Adrian McKinty has been blowing us out of the mystery water for quite some time now, but phew-oh, he has totally taken over the whole field with Fifty Grand. Think Don Winslows masterly Power of the Dog combined with José Latour and the sheer narrative drive of Joe Lansdale and youll have some idea of this amazing novel. It has riveting mystery, politics of just about every shade and thrills on almost every page. I've rarely read a novel that had it allhuman and drug trafficking, Hollywood excesses, ferocious vengeancebut what I found most compulsive was the wondrous compassion of the book. It moved me in ways I never anticipated. This is going to be the BIG BOOK of 2009."Ken Bruen, author of The Guards and Once Were Cops Anthony Quinn - Gahan Wilson - John Fowles - Paul Di Filippo - Publishers Weekly - Kirkus Reviews - Romantic Times Bookclub Magazine - Publishers Weekly - Kirkus Reviews - Kirkus Reviews - Booklist - SciFi.com - Entertainment Weekly - Kirkus - New Scientist - Newsday - Publishers Weekly - Realms of Fantasy - San Francisco Chronicle - The Sunday Times - The Washington Post - Time Out London - Wired - Los Angeles Times - Vanity Fair - New York Times Book Review - Rocky Mountain News - Library Journal - Publishers Weekly - Southern Living - Booklist - Publishers Weekly - Romantic Times - Midwest Book Review
Review
“Adrian McKinty [is] … a master of modern noir, up there with Dennis Lehane and James Ellroy…. Fifty Grand is a blast: a standalone effort which again showcases McKinty's brutal lyricism as well as his sensitivity to the indignities of the immigrant experience.”The Guardian (UK)
"An intelligent novel of suspense about cultural identity. . . . In trademark fashion, McKinty winds up his provocative tale with a violent and memorable final act."Publishers Weekly
"The talented McKinty does his usual first-rate job of making you like the characters he likes."Kirkus Reviews
"Adrian McKinty has been blowing us out of the mystery water for quite some time now, but phew-oh, he has totally taken over the whole field with Fifty Grand. Think Don Winslows masterly Power of the Dog combined with José Latour and the sheer narrative drive of Joe Lansdale and youll have some idea of this amazing novel. It has riveting mystery, politics of just about every shade and thrills on almost every page. I've rarely read a novel that had it allhuman and drug trafficking, Hollywood excesses, ferocious vengeancebut what I found most compulsive was the wondrous compassion of the book. It moved me in ways I never anticipated. This is going to be the BIG BOOK of 2009."Ken Bruen, author of The Guards and Once Were Cops
Review
“An impeccably constructed thriller supported by a cast of finely rounded, Elmore Leonard-like characters.” -Booklist
“Adrian McKinty [is] a master of modern noir, up there with Dennis Lehane and James Ellroy….”—The Guardian (UK)“He is a cross between Mickey Spillane and Damon Runyon—the toughest, the best. Beware of McKinty.”—Frank McCourt
“I've rarely read a novel that had it all—human and drug trafficking, Hollywood excesses, ferocious vengeance—but what I found most compulsive was the wondrous compassion of the book. It moved me in ways I never anticipated.”—Ken Bruen, author of The Guards and Once Were Cops
Synopsis
This knockout thriller from a critically acclaimed author follows a young Cuban detective's quest for vengeance against her father's killer in a Colorado mountain town.
Synopsis
Detective Mercado of the Havana Police department is devastated when she learns that her fathers been killed in a mysterious hit and run accident - in Fairview, an affluent little mountain town in Colorado, of all places. So she reluctantly does what any good daughter would: smuggles herself out of Cuba and goes to Fairview, where shes got seven days to find her fathers killer, exact revenge, and return home before the Cuban authorities catch on. But in a town teeming with vacationing celebrities, Mexican indentured servants, drug dealers, and a sadistic local sheriffs minions, shell have to comb through a long cast of suspects to find the man responsible for her fathers death. Adrian McKintys Fifty Grand is an explosive tale of retribution.
About the Author
Adrian McKinty is the critically acclaimed author of Dead I Well May Be, the award-winning The Dead Yard, The Bloomsday Dead, and Hidden River. McKinty was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and educated at Oxford University. After ten years in Colorado, he currently lives in Melbourne, Australia.