General Information
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 Title:                  Dead I Well May Be
 Author:                 Adrian McKinty
 Read By:                Gerard Doyle
 Copyright:              2003
 Audiobook Copyright:    2004
 Genre:                  Mystery
 Publisher:              Blackstone Audio
 Abridged:               No

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 Media:                  CDs
 Number:                 10
 Source:                 Library
 Condition:              Very Good

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Book Description
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FROM THE PUBLISHER
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. 

FROM THE CRITICS
The Washington Post
Michael's pure and relentless pursuit of Darkey, and a dazzling epilogue 
set in 2003 in which his past catches up with him, could not be improved 
upon. McKinty, who now teaches in a Denver high school, is a writer 
to watch, and Dead I Well May Be, as a portrait of violence and revenge, 
is a gem. — Patrick Anderson

Publishers Weekly
McKinty's second novel is a brutal tale of revenge starring a young 
illegal immigrant from Ireland who chooses a criminal career in New 
York over unemployment in Belfast. Arriving in the city in the early 
1990s, the antihero Michael Forsythe lands a spot as an enforcer for 
Irish mobster Darkey White. Though Forsythe at first keeps his hands 
relatively clean, he soon racks up a significant number of kills in 
skirmishes with rival crews as well as with Dominican gangs warring 
for control of the streets. An affair with his boss's girlfriend leads 
to a setup: he and his mates are trapped in a drug sting in Mexico and 
abandoned in a remote prison. "If someone grows up in the civil war 
of Belfast in the seventies and eighties, perhaps violence is his only 
form of meaningful expression," McKinty writes early in the novel, and 
the bulk of the story recounts Forsythe's grisly efforts to escape and 
avenge himself, including a stint with a Dominican group seeking to 
oust Darkey White. The pace is brisk and energetic, but Forsythe remains 
a cipher-a self-educated intellectual who listens to Tolstoy on tape 
during a stakeout but exhibits puzzlingly little interest in finding 
an alternative to the gun and the knife. The dark, brooding tone is 
reminiscent of Dennis Lehane, but McKinty has yet to achieve Lehane's 
depth and complexity. (Oct.) Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information. 

AudioFile
Manhattan's meanest streets, 1991-92, before "Rudy Giuliani cleaned 
up the City," remind 19-year-old Michael Forsythe of Belfast, circa 
1973, "and there wasn't even a war here." It's a world run by Dominican, 
Jamaican, Irish, and African-American gangs. Michael is armed with a 
poet's soul, an Irishman's imagination, and a very big gun. He's the 
"muscle" for Darkey White, a neighborhood crook. Gerard Doyle gives 
a riveting performance of Adrian McKinty's superb venture into Irish 
noir. Doyle's slightly bemused Michael survives an urban hell of howling 
crack addicts, cockroaches, shoot-outs, betrayals, and revenge. Doyle 
is brilliantly understated, dark and ironic, as Michael withstands the 
Mexican penal system, a hurricane, and the swamps of the Yucatan. Lyrical, 
harsh, tender, and brutal, this is an amazing book boasting a stunning 
performance. S.J.H. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award © AudioFile 
2005, Portland, Maine 

Kirkus Reviews
A breakout second novel (after Orange Rhymes with Everything, 1997) 
careens boisterously from Belfast to the Bronx, and 'tis naught but 
Troubles all the way. Michael Forsythe's on the run, everlastingly it 
seems. He's 19, psyche-scarred, battle-scarred, Belfast-scarred, so 
that violence has become "his only form of meaningful expression." To 
avoid jail, he slips out of the O.C. (Old Country) and into the States, 
illegally, and almost at once finds his talents in demand: he's good 
with his fists, his guns, icy in a tight spot, and noticeably cleverer 
than most. It's 1992, crack is king, and an ambitious Irish gangster 
named Darkey White wants his turf free of the Dominican influence. Michael's 
made to order for him-until, that is, the advent of Bridget. Bridget 
is beautiful, reckless, and, to Michael, fatefully irresistible: "Aye, 
you can imagine her . . . summoning you to a barrow in the earth. You 
would know all this and still you would bloody follow her." And Michael 
does-to his cost, because she belongs to Darkey, who, while unreservedly 
pleased at Michael's performance on his behalf, has zero tolerance for 
hanky-panky. Michael and three young colleagues are dispatched to Mexico, 
on a routine drug deal to be followed by some well-earned downtime, 
they're told. But it's a betrayal. Instead, they're peached on to the 
Mexican police and, as a result, imprisoned-in a very bad prison, chillingly 
evoked, bad enough so that only Michael survives. Eventually, he escapes, 
taking with him the heaviness of a promise made to a friend: an eye 
for an eye, invoked on a dying breath. How Michael goes about the business 
of revenge, and how it reshapes him, is the burden of the rest of the 
tale.McKinty, born in Northern Ireland and now Colorado-based, is a 
storyteller with the kind of style and panache that blur the line between 
genre and mainstream. Top-drawer. Film rights optioned to Anonymous 
Content. Agent: Bob Mecoy

