Adrian lives in Melbourne, Australia with his wife and two children. See if your friends have read any of Adrian McKinty's books. Adrian McKinty became a published author in 1997 with the novel Orange Rhymes with Everything. Police at the Station and They Don't Look Friendly. The story is about Jamie O/’Neills who moves with his mother to Ireland on an Island off the coast. They didn’t sell all that well. This is a common practice for most successful writers. Adrian McKinty. In 1999, while his wife studied for a Fulbright in Israel, McKinty played loose head prop forward for the Jerusalem Lions Rugby Club. His writing career officially began in 2003 when ‘Dead I Well May Be’, his debut novel, was published. After settling down in New York, he did a number of odd jobs, working as a bartender, librarian, and a rugby coach, to mention but a few. He kicked his career off with the Michael Forsythe Trilogy. 'McKinty's Troubles-set tales of sarky Belfast …, 'McKinty is one of Britain's great contemporary…. [3][4], After graduating from Oxford in 1993, McKinty moved to New York and found work in a number of occupations: security guard, barman, bookstore clerk, rugby coach, door to door salesman and librarian for the Columbia University Library. But publishing wasn’t necessarily on his radar, not where his career path was concerned. The books of Adrian McKinty including the Sean Duffy Series, Michael Forsythe Series and the Lighthouse Trilogy featuring the upcoming book "Rain Dogs" Adrian McKinty is an Edgar Award winning crime novelist from Belfast, Northern Ireland. Welcome back. We do our best to get everything listed but the occasional book gets by us. His books have won the Edgar Award, the Anthony Award, the Ned Kelly Award and the Barry Award. Communities are starving. His father was a welder and boilermaker at the Harland and Wolff shipyard before becoming a merchant seaman. But he was also certain that his hard work would produce dividends down the line once his writing star exploded and the financial rewards started pouring in. This is a thriller kind of story that was released in the year 2014. In a late-night phone call, Salerno persuaded McKinty to write what would become The Chain. He studied Law in Warwick University and politics and philosophy in University of Oxford. The father and husband moved to the US in 1993. Michael Forsythe is the protagonist in this book. [29], Janet Maslin, "Here's an Existential Thriller:Pass It On. Last week I thought my cup runneth over when I won the International Thriller Writers Crime Novel of the Year and today I just was given the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year. In 2008 he and his family moved to Melbourne, Australia. McKinty only found stability once he moved to Denver, becoming the English teacher at a high school. Adrian McKinty is an author who has achieved great success over the years. McKinty has been an especially astute observer of class in fiction. He read law at the University of Warwick and politics and philosophy at the University of Oxford. Born in 1968 in Belfast, McKinty was one of five children. Set in Ireland in the 1980s, his stories contain all the elements of great crime fiction: fast-pace, fraught characters, and twists and turns galore. He is preparing to hand the Reacher series over to his brother and the two are writing this novel together to ease the transition.