Fifty Grand
  • Published:
    May-2009 (Hardcover)
    2009 (Paperback)
  • Formats:
    Print / eBook / Audio
  • Main Genre:
    Thriller
  • Time Period:
    Contemporary
  • Pages:
    320
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This knockout punch of a thriller from a critically acclaimed author follows a young Cuban detective's quest for vengeance against her father's 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 isn't a maid. And she's not Mexican, either. She's Detective Mercado, a police officer from Havana, and she's 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 McKinty's 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.
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    • Jul-2009
    • Serpent's Tail (UK)
    • Paperback
    • ISBN: 1846687233
    • ISBN13: 9781846687235
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    • May-2010
    • Serpent's Tail (UK)
    • Paperback
    • ISBN: 1846687411
    • ISBN13: 9781846687419
    •  
    • Jun-2010
    • Picador
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0312429819
    • ISBN13: 9780312429812
    • First Edition
    • May-2009
    • Henry Holt
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0805089004
    • ISBN13: 9780805089004
    •  
    • Apr-2009
    • Henry Holt and Co.
    • eBook (Kindle)
    •  
    • May-2009
    • Henry Holt
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 142992179X
    • ISBN13: 9781429921794
    •  
    • Apr-2010
    • Henry Holt and Co.
    • eBook (Kindle)
    •  
    • Jul-2010
    • Profile
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 1847652344
    • ISBN13: 9781847652348
    •  
    • Apr-2009
    • Blackstone Audio, Inc.
    • Audible
    •  
    • Apr-2009
    • Blackstone Audiobooks
    • Audio CD
    • ISBN: 1433292467
    • ISBN13: 9781433292460
    •  
    • Apr-2009
    • Blackstone Audiobooks
    • MP3 CD
    • ISBN: 1433292491
    • ISBN13: 9781433292491
    •  
    • Aug-2009
    • Blackstone Audiobooks
    • Playaway
    • ISBN: 1433292521
    • ISBN13: 9781433292521
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    • Mar-2012
    • Blackstone Audiobooks
    • Audio CD
    • ISBN: 1433292483
    • ISBN13: 9781433292484



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