ISBN 9781846687235
Publisher: Serpent's Tail
Paperback
Pub Date: Jul 2009
S$28.00 |
Fifty Grand
Adrian McKinty
Cuban cop Hernandez has a score to settle, on behalf of a deadbeat dad, a ‘traitor’ who skipped free from Castro’s control to set up a new life working illegally in Colorado. He settled in a ski resort popular with the Hollywood Scientology set, where a façade of legality is maintained by the immigrant cleaners and labourers working for below minimum wage while the local sheriff is bribed to turn a blind eye. Hernandez Sr’s dreams of fortune and freedom are shattered when he is killed in a hit-and-run accident.
Sworn to avenge his death, Hernandez has some obstacles to overcome – not least getting out of Cuba, where visas are as elusive as constant electricity.
Switching back and forth between heat-soaked Havana and the icy luxury of the mountainside resort, Fifty Grand is an audacious thriller from an acknowledged talent – and an incendiary debut for a new hero.
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