Orange Rhymes with Everything

McKinty is the best writer of my generation (although I'm a bit younger than him). 'Orange' is a great novel, although it is vastly different from his subsequent novels. McKinty is outstanding, pick up any of his novels. His prose is second to none.

This is a fully realized literary statement of nihilism, a foreboding read in the best noirish tradition. Yet throughout there's a pervasive sense of unity of all things. Dismissing this as a first novel is a mistake; it is deficient in neither theme or quality of prose. I applaud the author's vision and his commitment to style, something almost completely missing from today's bestsellers. This book is disturbing on many levels and I will be thinking about it for weeks to come. I find that so many authors write two excellent books and then descend to some comfortable formula. In this book McKinty's is an original voice that I emphatically hope he maintains. Now on to the rest of his work...