This Irish bad-boy thriller -- set in the hardest streets of New
York City -- brims with violence, greed, and sexual betrayal.
"I didn't want to go to America, I didn't want to work for Darkey
White. I had my reasons. But I went."
So admits Michael Forsythe, an illegal immigrant escaping the
Troubles in Belfast. But young Michael is strong and fearless and
clever -- just the fellow to be tapped by Darkey, a crime boss, to
join a gang of Irish thugs struggling against the rising Dominican
powers in Harlem and the Bronx. The time is pre-Giuliani New York,
when crack rules the city, squatters live furtively in ruined
buildings, and hundreds are murdered each month. Michael and his
lads tumble through the streets, shaking down victims, drinking
hard, and fighting for turf, block by bloody block.
Dodgy and observant, not to mention handy with a pistol, Michael is
soon anointed by Darkey as his rising star. Meanwhile Michael has
very inadvisably seduced Darkey's girl, Bridget -- saucy, fickle,
and irresistible. Michael worries that he's being followed, that
his affair with Bridget will be revealed. He's right to be anxious;
when Darkey discovers the affair, he plans a very hard fall for
young Michael, a gambit devilish in its guile, murderous in its
intent.
But Darkey fails to account for Michael's toughness and ingenuity
or the possibility that he might wreak terrible vengeance upon
those who would betray him.
A natural storyteller with a gift for dialogue, McKinty introduces
to readers a stunning new noir voice, dark and stylish, mythic and
violent -- complete with an Irish lilt.
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