Fifty Grand by Adrian McKinty – review
An illegal immigrant is killed in a hit-and-run in Fairview, Colorado, a ski town for Hollywood types too cool for Vail. Nobody cares – what’s a dead Mexican when there’s another van-load no doubt on the way? Thing is, despite what his papers may say, the dead man wasn’t Mexican but Cuban, and somebody does care who murdered him, namely his estranged daughter, Detective Mercado of the Havana police.
Full review after the jump…
What was the best online writing of 2009?
In this varied world of online writing, increasingly you can and will come across a piece of original writing that strikes you as being great. It may touch you or give you pause or make you think. You may even come back to it to reference it, to re-engage it, to revel in it. Finding quality online writing is becoming much more commonplace, and disseminating that information through the usual outlets (links, tweets, etc.) just feels…inadequate and temporary. One of my fears is that in the long run a lot of this stuff will be lost and forgotten, and in many case it shouldn’t.
More after the jump…
The Electric Mayhem: Cuban Dope
This edition of The Electric Mayhem looks at Havana Lunar by Robert Arellano, Fifty Grand by Adrian McKinty and Dope Thief by Dennis Tafoya.
