The Bloomsday Dead by Adrian Mckinty
Michael Forsythe living in Lima, reasonably well-hidden by the FBI's Witness Protection Program, but Bridget Callaghan, whose fiance he murdered twelve years ago, has an enduring wish to see him dead. So when her two assassins pass him the phone to speak to her before they kill him, Michael thinks she just wants to relish the moment.
Riotous and visceral* Waterstone’s Books Quarterly *
Packed with sharp dialogue and unremitting action. -- Marcel Berlins * The Times *
Compelling thrillers written in a hard-bitten, muscular style, the novels are given an unconventional twist by virtue of Forsythe's unusually perceptive insights... a fascinating blend of Robert Ludlum's Jason Bourne and Patricia Highsmith's Tom Ripley... McKinty is a rare writer. * Sunday Business Post *
McKinty's hard-boiled, fast-paced The Bloomsday Dead is as dark and violent as any thriller fan could demand, but it also serves as an intelligent homage to Ulysses - not so much to its content as to Joyce's way of telling a story... Thriller writers have to know their material: McKinty's graps of the chronnological structures of Ulysses is as firm as any scholar's. -- Fintan O'Toole * Irish Times *
Packed with sharp dialogue and unremitting action. -- Marcel Berlins * The Times *
Compelling thrillers written in a hard-bitten, muscular style, the novels are given an unconventional twist by virtue of Forsythe's unusually perceptive insights... a fascinating blend of Robert Ludlum's Jason Bourne and Patricia Highsmith's Tom Ripley... McKinty is a rare writer. * Sunday Business Post *
McKinty's hard-boiled, fast-paced The Bloomsday Dead is as dark and violent as any thriller fan could demand, but it also serves as an intelligent homage to Ulysses - not so much to its content as to Joyce's way of telling a story... Thriller writers have to know their material: McKinty's graps of the chronnological structures of Ulysses is as firm as any scholar's. -- Fintan O'Toole * Irish Times *
Adrian McKinty was born in Carrickfergus, Northern Ireland, and grew up at the height of the Troubles. He studied law, politics and philosophy at university. In the early 1990s he moved to New York City where he worked in bars, bookstores and building sites. He now lives in Melbourne, Australia. The first Sean Duffy novel The Cold Cold Ground won the 2013 Spinetingler Award, its sequel I Hear The Sirens In The Street was shortlisted for the 2013 Ned Kelly Award, and Sean Duffy Thriller #3, In the Morning I'll be Gone, won the 2014 Ned Kelly Award and was picked as one of the top 10 crime novels of 2014 by the American Library Association.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781846686603 |
| ISBN 10 | 1846686601 |
| Title | The Bloomsday Dead |
| Author | Adrian Mckinty |
| Series | The Dead Trilogy |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Profile Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2009-07-09 |
| Number of pages | 304 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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