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It's been my experience that only children never learn when to keep their fucking traps shut. An older brother would have beat that out of you.
— Adrian McKinty
I don't know if that's a year's bad luck, or if that's how it works. But stealing a Christmas tree - that can't be a good thing, karma-wise.
— Adrian McKinty
Who do you think's after you, Shane, my lad? Or is it just the dark you're afeared of?
— Adrian McKinty
You ever read Thucydides? I'll boil him down for you into one easy moral: intergenerational civil war is a very bad thing.
— Adrian McKinty
The minutes ticked past. This is why peelers need a book. A wee paperback to stick in your pocket.
— Adrian McKinty
Greek mythology has always been my Achilles elbow.
— Adrian McKinty
A bullet in the head will fix an incipient asthma attack every time.
— Adrian McKinty
But this was Northern Ireland in 1981 which was slightly less conservative than, say, Salem in 1692
— Adrian McKinty
I used to get a lift to school every day with a man who was a major in the British Army.
— Adrian McKinty
Crime fiction, especially noir and hardboiled, is the literature of the proletariat.
— Adrian McKinty
We were living in Denver, Colorado, and I was teaching high school. I asked the kids to write a short story, so I thought I should write some myself.
— Adrian McKinty
When a locked-room mystery doesn't work, the solution makes you groan, and the book gets hurled across the room.
— Adrian McKinty
Revenge is the foolish stepbrother of justice.
— Adrian McKinty
More guilt, guilt, guilt. That's the Irish condition.
— Adrian McKinty
How do you feel about homosexuals, Mr. Scavanni?' I asked. 'I think they're great. More women for the rest of us,' he said sarcastically. — Adrian McKinty
I've never been a believer in the word-count thing. I write slowly and tinker with the words and the word order, and I throw a lot of stuff out.
— Adrian McKinty
I studied law at Warwick University, then philosophy at Oxford. I met my wife Leah there. She is American, so I followed her to New York.
— Adrian McKinty
He was one of those characters who felt that a weak handshake could somehow damage his authority, which meant that every handshake had to bloody hurt.
— Adrian McKinty
A black Mercedes Benz 450 SL pulled up. It was your classic hood auto beloved of terrorists, pimps and African dictators.
— Adrian McKinty
We drank our whiskeys. It was the good stuff and it tasted of salt, sea, rain, wind and the Old Testament.
— Adrian McKinty
Johnnie Walker in the tea, Jim Beam in the coffee
— Adrian McKinty
Forget him, he's just another red-shirted extra making a cameo appearance in our lives.
— Adrian McKinty
If you haven't read 'In The Morning I'll Be Gone', I reckon it's a pretty good place to start if you're new to me and my books.
— Adrian McKinty
Drawing Dead is a brilliant noir from one of Australia's most exciting new novelists.
— Adrian McKinty
After secondary school, the big thing to do was apply for uni in England or Scotland and then just stay there.
— Adrian McKinty
People in the North are really taciturn and reticent, and they don't really like to talk about the past.
— Adrian McKinty
Twelve-year-old Islay. Good stuff if you liked peat, smoke, earth, rain, despair, and the Atlantic Ocean, and who doesn't like that?
— Adrian McKinty
I had a few stories and longer pieces published, but my first proper novel came in 2003, called 'Dead I Well May Be.'
— Adrian McKinty
You're a glass-half-empty kind of guy, sir, aren't you?""I don't even acknowledge the existence of the glass, son. — Adrian McKinty
I think if you grow up in a culture where the army is out on the street sighting you with rifles, it has to have some kind of psychological impact.
— Adrian McKinty
Don't worry, Duffy. I like you. We'll kill you last.
— Adrian McKinty