McKinty, Adrian Dead Trilogy. #bk. 1

Read by Gerard Doyle

This Irish bad-boy thriller, set in the hardest streets of New York City, introduces us to Michael Forsythe, an illegal immigrant escaping from the Troubles in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Clever, fearless, and handy with a pistol, young Michael is just the fellow to be tapped by Darkey, a New York crime boss, to join his gang of thugs fighting for their turf. But just as Michael is being anointed Darkey's rising star, he inadvisably seduces Darkey's girl. Suddenly the tables are turned, and Darkey plans a very hard fall for young Michael. But Darkey fails to account for Michael's toughness-or his determination to wreak vengeance upon those who betray him. A natural storyteller with a gift for dialogue, McKinty delivers us a stunning new noir voice, dark and stylish, mythic and violent-complete with an Irish lilt. Title. Quote. Prologue: Belfast Confetti 1. White Boy in Harlem 2. Downtown 3. The Nice Part of the Bronx 4. Across 110th Street 5. We Go To Mexico 6. The Lost World 7. Via Deleid 8. Sur dela Frontera 9.The Corner of Malcom X and Martin Luther King 10. A Stolen Car to Oyster Bay 11. The Seven Train to Woodside 12. Metro North Coda: Eleven Years Later, LA. "Gerard Doyle gives a riveting performance…Doyle is brilliantly understated, dark, and ironic…Tender and brutal, this is an amazing book boasting a stunning performance. Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award." "Dead I Well May Be, as a portrait of violence and revenge, is a gem." "McKinty…is a storyteller with the kind of style and panache that blur the line between genre and mainstream. Top-drawer." "A literate, funny, wise old soul in the body of a dangerously naive teen, his Michael draws us close and relates a fantastic tale of murder and revenge in low, wry tones, as if from the next barstool…One of the best crime fiction debuts of the year." "Michael Forsythe is a crook, a deviant, a lover, a fighter, and a thinker. His Irish-tough language of isolation and longing makes us love and trust him despite his oh-so-great and violent flaws. When you finish this book, you just might wish you'd lived the life in its pages, and thought its thoughts, both horrible and sublime."

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