The start of a new series from acclaimed crime author McKinty

"* 'McKinty is a rare writer' - Sunday Business Post * 'Packed with sharp dialogue and unremitting action' - The Times * 'Thoroughly enjoyable... [McKinty] maintains the bloody action all the way from Lima to Larne with panache and economy. His hero, the "un-f***ing-killable" Michael Forsythe, is a wonderful creation' - Irish Mail on Sunday * 'Beware of McKinty' - Frank McCourt" * Adrian McKinty has been blowing us out of the mystery water for quite some time now. The Bloomsday Dead-superb, Dead I Well May Be, phew-oh, but he has totally taken over the whole field with Fifty Grand. Think Don Winslow's masterly Power of The Dog combined with Jose Latour and the sheer narrative drive of Joe Lansdale and you'll have some idea of this amazing novel. It has riveting mystery, politics of just about every shade, thrills on almost every page and the most compelling heroine in a Havana female detective named Mercado. I've rarely read a novel that had it all-human and drug trafficking, Hollywood excesses, illegals, 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.A"- Ken Bruen, author of The Guards