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Fifty Grand

de Adrian McKinty

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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.

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Not my favorite book of the author. Slow moving and an unsatisfactory read (my opinion). Some anti Christian references, sexual content, and profanity. Narrator is clear. ( )
  C.L.Barnett | Dec 1, 2023 |
Hmm. There are plenty of McKinty’s trademark interaction with real famous people. At one end of the scale Brad Pitt sticks his head round the door in an utterly gratuitous cameo that does nothing to advance the plot. At the other end, Castro looms throughout. Mystery-wise it’s not wholly satisfying, but the action scenes are tense and well written. ( )
  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 |
A solidly written book about a Cuban cop who goes to the States to investigate the murder of her father in an apparent hit-and-run. She slips over the border as an illegal Mexican worker looking for a new life in America and starts to work as a maid for the rich and famous in Colorado, while trying to gather information about her father's death. She's working against time as she needs to return home before she's missed.
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 |
Great storytelling here about the main character -- a Cuban police officer -- who sneaks out of Cuba to the U.S. to avenge the death of her father, a Cuban defector. Pretty amazing, considering the author was born in Ireland and lives in Australia. A good mystery/thriller, with a nice component on family and close relationships. A good read! ( )
  Randall.Hansen | Apr 17, 2013 |
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Fiction. Suspense. 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.

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