This Irish bad-boy thriller -- set in the hardest streets of New York City -- brims with violence, greed, and sexual betrayal.
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..
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.
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.
Michael worries that he\'s being followed, that his affair with Bridget will be revealed.
Meanwhile Michael has very inadvisably seduced Darkey\'s girl, Bridget -- saucy, fickle, and irresistible.
Dodgy and observant, not to mention handy with a pistol, Michael is soon anointed by Darkey as his rising star.
Michael and his lads tumble through the streets, shaking down victims, drinking hard, and fighting for turf, block by bloody block.
The time is pre-Giuliani New York, when crack rules the city, squatters live furtively in ruined buildings, and hundreds are murdered each month.
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.
So admits Michael Forsythe, an illegal immigrant escaping the Troubles in Belfast.
But I went.
I had my reasons.
I didn\'t want to go to America, I didn\'t want to work for Darkey White.
This Irish bad-boy thriller -- set in the hardest streets of New York City -- brims with violence, greed, and sexual betrayal
