Fifty Grand

A Novel of Suspense

By: Adrian McKinty

Narrated by: Paula Christensen

Length: 13 hrs and 55 mins

Publisher's summary

An illegal immigrant is killed in a hit-and-run on a frozen mountain road in the town of Fairview, Colorado. No one is prosecuted for his death and his case is quietly forgotten. Six months later another illegal makes a treacherous run across the border, barely escaping with her life. She finds work as a maid and, secretly, begins to investigate the death of her father. But she isn't a maid, and she's not Mexican. She's Detective Mercado, a police officer from Havana, and she's looking for answers to her father's death. McKinty's live-wire prose is riveting, right up to a final, shocking conclusion.

©2009 Barron's Educational Series, Inc. (P)2009 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Critic reviews

"This amazing novel....has riveting mystery, politics of just about every shade, and thrills on almost every page. . . .This is going to be the BIG BOOK of 2009." - (Ken Bruen, author of The Guards and Once Were Cops)

Deathly slow

The story was far from original. There was no real mystery. The only suspense was why the author took such a tedious path of explaining the ending which was actually the first chapter. I only completed the "listening" because I thought that with all the good ratings, the best was yet to come.

No Suspense

This book is boring, NO suspense. Giving it two stars is being generous.

Waste of time

I have never written a review on Audible.com although I have been a member for many years. There are very, very few books that I abandon, but two hours were too many. I had to read the reviews to try to decipher the story line. The narrator's tone is flat and the plot line unclear. Save your money and choose something else!

Maybe the worst Audio book ever

If there was a rating lower than the one star, I would give this book that. The narrator was, without a doubt, the worst I've ever heard. The story was predictable and not even close to McKinty's other works.

Revolting--I didn't finish it

3 hours was about all I could take of this book. I'm sure the F-word was used more than any other word in the book. I think it may have had some kind of good twist in the plot, but I couldn't get past the bad language and graphic details.

Boring

The reader sounded so bored l got tired trying to urge her on, wanting her to add more inflection and speed up. Consequently, the story felt slow so skipped to the end.

Difficult to Listen To

The write up on Audible sounded like a good book; however, the reader reads to slow and is boring. Hard to hold interest and plot is difficult to follow due to it being non cohesive. I doubt I would purchase this book or any from this author if this is an example of what to expect.

Be careful

You should know that this book is filled with the f-word throughout - much more than most books. Younger listeners are probably accustomed to this type of language used freely, but it's offensive to me.

Fifty Grand

This writer seems to have a very small vocabulary, all of it smut. I don't find this entertaining in any way and certainly not stimulating to the mind. If I'd taken this book from the library it would have gone back on about page 3.

More filler than content

After listening to this book, I'm surprised that Audible would be pushing it. While the book had a few dramatic scenes, and the descriptions of life in Cuba were of interest, the author created a multi-hour book out of a much shorter story. Lots and lots of irrelevant and repetitious content, and an implausible plot line.