Detective Mercado of the Havana Police department is devastated when she learns that her fathers been killed in a mysterious hit and run accident in Fairview, an affluent little mountain town in Colorado, of all places. So she reluctantly does what any good daughter would: smuggles herself out of Cuba and goes to Fairview, where shes got seven days to find her fathers killer, exact revenge, and return home before the Cuban authorities catch on. But in a town teeming with vacationing celebrities, Mexican indentured servants, drug dealers, and a sadistic local sheriffs minions, shell have to comb through a long cast of suspects to find the man responsible for her fathers death. Adrian McKintys Fifty Grand is an explosive tale of retribution.
