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…

— Adrian McKinty

“It's been my experience that only children never learn when to keep their fucking traps shut. An older brother would have beat…

— Adrian McKinty

“The Bible says that man is born to trouble as the sparks fly upward. Well, trouble followed me like sharks trailing a…

— Adrian McKinty

“Don't go there, Sean. Not on a Sunday. There's no point making waves,” Crabbie said. He was as impatient as I was…

— Adrian McKinty

“sallow-faced, balding, heavy lidded, Uriah Heep of a man, Kevin”

— Adrian McKinty

“I’d met spooks and blades and they lied like they had invented the concept.”

— Adrian McKinty

Human beings are pattern-seeking animals. It's part of our DNA. That's why conspiracy theories and gods are so popular: we always look…

— Adrian McKinty

“The problem with Double Fantasy was the arrangement whereby they alternated John Lennon tracks with Yoko Ono tracks. You couldn’t escape Yoko…

— Adrian McKinty

“The riot had taken on a beauty of its own now. Arcs of gasoline fire under the crescent moon. Crimson tracer in…

— 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

“Don’t trust whitey and whitey is fucking everywhere. We walked”

— 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

“squirrel is in a pine tree, when all of a sudden, it starts shaking. He looks down, and sees an elephant climbing…

— Adrian McKinty

“You painted it pink?' Price asked with a grin. 'That’s lavender, you colour-blind eejit,' I said. McCallister saw that Price clearly hadn’t…

— Adrian McKinty

“As the Russians say, getting what you want sometimes requires moving like the knight in chess: forward and to the left.”

— Adrian McKinty

“A cocked .38 doesn't feel the same as an unprimed revolver. The frame tightens differently, the trigger is on a hair and…

— Adrian McKinty

Drawing Dead is a brilliant noir from one of Australia's most exciting new novelists.

— Adrian McKinty

“Intelligence is no substitute for wisdom. Live long enough to get wise, eh?”

— Adrian McKinty

The minutes ticked past. This is why peelers need a book. A wee paperback to stick in your pocket.

— Adrian McKinty

“Age hasn’t matured you. It’s made those traits that were ticks in the twenty-five-year-old into full-blown affectations in the thirty-eight-year-old.”

— Adrian McKinty

“To quote Bugs Bunny, it’s mongoose season, and you’re the fucking mongoose.”

— Adrian McKinty

“Life’s tough and even tougher when you’re stupid,”

— Adrian McKinty

“Radio One played “Ebony and Ivory,” a new song by Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder. The breakfast DJ Mike Read played it…

— Adrian McKinty

“What’s news?” She put the magazine down and looked at me. “Philip K. Dick is dead.” “Who’s that?” I asked.”

— Adrian McKinty

“I’m not down with the kids, though, am I? And you still haven’t answered my question. What’s an SEP?” “Someone else’s problem,…

— Adrian McKinty