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Loading... Fifty Grandby Adrian McKinty
   None No current Talk conversations about this book.   ) C.L.Barnett | Dec 1, 2023 |   ) asxz | Mar 13, 2019 | McKinty is on a roll! No misstep so far! The opening chapter of the book is antological. The story is a strong one, with wonderful characterization told through a first person narrative by Detective Mercado. Supporting the plot is a brisk pace that sears at the opening, then pulls back, hammers the reader again, pulls back once more, slows down, and then the breathtaking Grand Finale. McKinty creates a Havana, unlike any I've read. The plot is relatively simple but the characters, the setting, and the tension all make it succeed and feel original, and the Prose, the Prose Dear Readers. That's what really sets this book apart in my mind (as the previous reviewed books). McKinty belongs to that rare breed of Writers that can write Prose as if it were Poetry. He's really a Poet of the Prose. (  ) antao | Dec 10, 2016 | The novel opens with the climax and then goes back into the past, so you know what's coming up, which lends an air of urgency to everything. The parts set in Cuba are very atmospheric. The parts with the rich and famous don't seem quite so believable, at least to me. ( ) quiBee | Jan 21, 2016 |  ) Randall.Hansen | Apr 17, 2013 | no reviews | add a review
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HTML: An illegal immigrant is killed in a hit-and-run on a frozen mountain road in the rich Hollywood resort town of Fairview, Colorado. No one is prosecuted for his death, and his case is quietly forgotten. Six months later, posing as an illegal immigrant and working as a maid in Fairview, Havana police officer Detective Mercado begins to secretly investigate the shadowy collision that left her father dead. Who killed him? Was it one of the smooth-talking Hollywood types or 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? In Fifty Grand, Adrian McKinty's live-wire prose crackles with intensity as we follow Mercado through the emotion and violence that lead to a final, shocking confrontation. .No library descriptions found. |
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