The Cold, Cold Ground

PRAISE FOR ADRIAN MCKINTY
    Dead I Well May Be
    “McKinty is a cross between Mickey Spillane and Damon Runyon – the toughest, the best. Beware of McKinty” Frank McCourt
    “A darkly thrilling tale of the New York streets with all the hardboiled charm of Chandler and the down and dirty authenticity of closing time … Evocative dialogue, an acute sense of place and a sardonic sense of humour make McKinty one to watch” Maxim Jakubowski, Guardian
    “The story is soaked in the holy trinity of the noir thriller – betrayal, money and murder – but seen through here with a panache and political awareness that gives Dead I Well May Be a keen edge over its rivals” Big Issue
    “Adrian McKinty is a big new talent – for storytelling, for dialogue and for creating believable characters … Dead I Well May Be is a riveting story of revenge and marks the arrival of a distinctive fresh voice” Susanna Yager, Sunday Telegraph
    “A pacy, assured and thoroughly engaging debut … this is a hard-boiled crime story written by a gifted man with poetry coursing through his veins and thrilling writing dripping from his fingertips” Sunday Independent
    “Careens boisterously from Belfast to the Bronx … McKinty is a storyteller with the kind of style and panache that blur the line between genre and mainstream. Top-drawer” Kirkus Reviews
    The Dead Yard
    “Adrian McKinty has once again harnessed the power of poetry, violence, lust and revenge to forge a sequel to his acclaimed Dead I Well May Be” Irish Post
    “McKinty’s literate, expertly crafted third crime novel confirms his place as one of his generation’s leading talents... McKinty possesses a talent for pace and plot structure that belies his years. Dennis Lehane fans will definitely be pleased” Publisher’s Weekly
    “ The Dead Yard is a much-anticipated sequel to Dead I Well May Be and every bit as good. McKinty crackles with raw talent. His dialogue is superb, his characters rich and his plotting tight and seamless. He also writes with a wonderful (and wonderfully humorous) flair for language, raising his work above most crime-genre offerings and bumping right up against literature” San Francisco Chronicle
    The Bloomsday Dead
    “Those who know McKinty will automatically tighten their seat-belts. To newcomers I say: buckle up and get set for a bumpy ride through a very harsh landscape indeed. His antihero Michael Forsythe is as wary, cunning and ruthless as a sewer rat … His journey in some ways parallels that of James Joyce’s Leopold Bloom on one day in Dublin, but – trust me – it’s a lot more violent and a great deal more exciting” Matthew Lewin, Guardian
    “A pacey, violent caper … As Forsythe hurtles around the city, McKinty vividly portrays its sleazy, still-menacing underbelly” John Dugdale, Sunday Times
    Falling Glass
    “McKinty is a streetwise, energetic gunslinger of a writer, firing off volleys of sassy dialogue and explosive action that always delivers what it has promised to the reader. The story is skilfully constructed and the pace is always full throttle forwards” David Park, Irish Times
    “Ireland’s more accessible answer to James Ellroy … This is another winner, with pathos, insight, sardonic humour and lyrical descriptions that counterpoint the red-hot sequences to superb effect” Laura Wilson, Guardian
    “A powerful and hugely satisfying read” Sunday Herald Sun , Melbourne
    “This globe-trotting narrative is rendered in McKinty’s trademark muscular prose, which drip-feeds poetic flourishes into hard-boiled noir” Declan Burke, Sunday Business Post

The Cold Cold Ground
    Adrian McKinty

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