โ Adrian McKinty
๐ Fiction
๐
2011
๐ English
โ 197 KB
๐ 1 views
โฆ LIBER โฆ
Fifty grand: a novel of suspense
โ Scribed by Adrian McKinty
- Publisher
- Profile Books;Henry Holt
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 193 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
This knockout punch of a thriller from a critically acclaimed author follows a young Cuban detectives quest for vengeance against her fathers killer in a Colorado mountain town
A man is killed in a hit-and-run on a frozen mountain road in the town of Fairview, Colorado. He is an illegal immigrant in a rich Hollywood resort community not unlike Telluride. No one is prosecuted for his death and his case is quietly forgotten.
Six months later another illegal makes a treacherous run across the border. Barely escaping with her life and sanity intact, she finds work as a maid with one of the employment agencies in Fairview. Secretly, she begins to investigate the shadowy collision that left her father dead.
The maid isnt a maid. And shes not Mexican, either. Shes Detective Mercado, a police officer from Havana, and shes looking for answers: Who killed her father? Was it one of the smooth- talking Hollywood types? Was it 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?
Adrian McKintys live-wire prose crackles with intensity as we follow Mercado through the swells of emotion and violence that lead up to a final shocking confrontation.
Library : General
Formats : EPUB
ISBN : 9780805089004
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