Fifty Grand: A Novel of Suspense (Audiobook)

from zmagic69

Wow a really good book. Not your typical mystery. This author can really right. Youu really can feel for both the Mexicans smuggling themselves into the U.S.A. and the people of Cuba. This book was a real surprise!

from smik

When Mercado was 13, her father walked out of her life. He committed treason, hijacked a ferry, and escaped to Mexico. He never came back, never wrote, and left Mercado, her brother Ricky, and their mother to fend for themselves as best they could, which wasn't well. Mercado becomes a cop in Cuba...

from Randall.Hansen

Great storytelling here about the main character -- a Cuban police officer -- who sneaks out of Cuba to the U.S. to avenge the death of her father, a Cuban defector. Pretty amazing, considering the author was born in Ireland and lives in Australia. A good mystery/thriller, with a nice component o...

from austcrimefiction

Adrian McKinty has an awful lot to answer for. Sitting down to read FIFTY GRAND, I thought this would be another good book from an author whose books I've increasing come to like. What I didn't expect was a nearly straight reading sitting, leaving the entire household making do with scratch meals...

from austcrimefiction

Adrian McKinty has an awful lot to answer for. Sitting down to read FIFTY GRAND, I thought this would be another good book from an author whose books I've increasing come to like. What I didn't expect was a nearly straight reading sitting, leaving the entire household making do with scratch meals...