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Adrian McKinty

People in the North are really taciturn and reticent, and they don’t really like to talk about the past.

– Adrian McKinty

Adrian McKinty

I think the poetry that came out of Belfast, and especially the Queen’s University set, in the 1970s and ’80s – you know, Paul Muldoon and Seamus Heaney, Derek Mahon and Ciaran Carson – that was probably the finest body of work since the Gaelic renaissance, up there with the work of Yeats and Synge and Lady Gregory.

– Adrian McKinty

Adrian McKinty

I’ve always been a secret locked-room fanatic. I read my first one when I was about ten or 11, Agatha Christie’s ‘Murder on the Orient Express,’ with David Niven and Peter Ustinov on the cover.

– Adrian McKinty

Adrian McKinty

I love the trilogy form. I like the idea that you can establish a character in book one. And then in the second part, you can take the characters down to their darkest point. And then in the third part, you have total freedom either to give them redemption – or just to kill them.

– Adrian McKinty

Adrian McKinty

A specific editor in a specific place likes the book, and you’re in. A different editor on a different day goes, ‘Oh, this isn’t for me’, or doesn’t even look at it, and that’s it.

– Adrian McKinty

Adrian McKinty

I find it easier to write in the winter in Melbourne. When the weather is good you want to go out for a walk, ride a bike, go to a cafe or something. When it’s raining, when it’s a miserable day, I just sit down at my desk and get some work done.

– Adrian McKinty

Adrian McKinty

The winters in Denver are brutal; it snows from the end of October to April.

– Adrian McKinty

Adrian McKinty

I did a law degree but was miserable the whole time. I was supposed to join a law firm in London but instead went to Oxford to do a master’s in philosophy.

– Adrian McKinty

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

Adrian McKinty

When we moved to Australia in 2008, I decided to try to live off the writing.

– Adrian McKinty

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

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

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