Pert 2 of The Dead Trilogy
Adrian McKinty was born and grew up in Carrickfergus, Northern Ireland at the height of the Troubles. He studied politics at Oxford University and after a failed legal career he moved to the US in the early 1990s. He found work as a security guard, postman, construction worker, barman, rugby coach and bookstore clerk before becoming a school teacher. He now lives in Australia.
McKinty proves himself a crime writer of note in this sequel to
Dead I Well May Be. Violence, lust and revenge - it's all here.
*Sunday Express*
The Dead Yard is compelling crime fiction at its finest!
*Ed McBain*
McKinty's literate, expertly crafted third crime novel confirms his
place as one of his generation's leading talents... he possesses a
talent for pace and plot structure that belies his years. Dennis
Lehane fans will definitely be pleased.
*Publisher’s Weekly*
McKinty crackles with raw talent. His dialogue is superb, his
characters rich and his plotting tight and seamless. He also writes
with a wonderful (and wonderfully humorous) flair for language,
raising his work above most crime-genre offerings and bumping right
up against literature. Michael [Forsythe] is smarter, funnier and
deadlier than almost everyone he's with, and this makes him a
terrific guide to the underworld he can't seem to escape. Not that
we don't want to see him try.
*San Francisco Chronicle*
Adrian McKinty is one of the great storytellers writing crime
fiction today.
*Don Winslow*
'When it comes to Northern Irish crime fiction, Adrian McKinty
forged the path the rest of us follow.'
*Stuart Neville*
McKinty proves himself a crime writer of note in this sequel to
Dead I Well May Be. Violence, lust and revenge - it's all here. *
Sunday Express *
The Dead Yard is compelling crime fiction at its finest! * Ed
McBain *
McKinty's literate, expertly crafted third crime novel confirms his
place as one of his generation's leading talents... he possesses a
talent for pace and plot structure that belies his years. Dennis
Lehane fans will definitely be pleased. * Publisher's Weekly *
McKinty crackles with raw talent. His dialogue is superb, his
characters rich and his plotting tight and seamless. He also writes
with a wonderful (and wonderfully humorous) flair for language,
raising his work above most crime-genre offerings and bumping right
up against literature. Michael [Forsythe] is smarter, funnier and
deadlier than almost everyone he's with, and this makes him a
terrific guide to the underworld he can't seem to escape. Not that
we don't want to see him try. * San Francisco Chronicle *
Adrian McKinty is one of the great storytellers writing crime
fiction today. -- Don Winslow
'When it comes to Northern Irish crime fiction, Adrian McKinty
forged the path the rest of us follow.' -- Stuart Neville
McKinty's literate, expertly crafted third crime novel, the sequel to Dead I Well May Be (2003), confirms his place as one of his generation's leading talents. Five years after taking down a powerful Irish mobster, Belfast-born mercenary Michael Forsythe has a new identity and the chance at a new life, courtesy of the FBI. Unfortunately, while vacationing in Spain, Forsythe's thrown into prison after a soccer match between the Irish and the Brits turns violent. Forsythe faces extradition to Mexico, where he's a wanted man, unless he cuts a deal with a gorgeous British intelligence agent, Samantha Caudwell, to infiltrate an Irish terrorist cell called the Sons of Cuchulainn. Based outside Boston and led by a pair of fanatic ex-IRA members, the SOC vows to ignore the IRA's current cease-fire and to attack British targets in the States. Once again, Forsythe goes undercover, entering a shadowy world of subterfuge and deception. McKinty possesses a talent for pace and plot structure that belies his years. Dennis Lehane fans will definitely be pleased. (Mar.) Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.
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