Adrian McKinty - Fifty Grand

Where will I go?

Santiago. Nueva York. Miami.

The forbidden places. The other world.

North, with the egrets and the spoonbills and the blue-plumed tocororo.

Across the cays.

Into the stream.

Dark waves.

Sea spray.

Skimming the blue.

And no one sees. Not the police. Not the navy. Not the brides of the orishas skilled in Santería.

North.

As the sailfish jump.

As the marlins dive.

North.

Always north.

Until the stars cease their wanderings.

Until the sun opens her tired eyes.

And I’ll fly alone.

And I’ll forgive the past.

And I’ll turn the brightness outward.

ADRIAN MCKINTY was born and grew up in Carrickfergus, Northern Ireland. After studying philosophy at Oxford University he moved to Harlem, New York, and found work in bars, bookstores, and building sites.

In 2001 he relocated to Denver, Colorado, where he taught high school English. His debut crime novel, Dead I Well May Be, was shortlisted for the 2004 CWA Steel Dagger Award and optioned by Universal Pictures. The sequel to that book, The Dead Yard, was picked by Publishers Weekly as one of the twelve best novels of 2006, and won the Audie Award for best thriller or mystery.

Fifty Grand is his first book for Henry Holt.

Adrian currently lives in Melbourne, Australia, with his wife and daughters. He was working on a sequel to Fifty Grand but a dingo ate the manuscript.