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Wikipedia article




'Dead I Well May be' is a 2003 novel by Irish/Australian author Adrian McKinty. It is his second novel, following 'Orange Rhymes With Everything', and was nominated for the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger award for the best thriller of the year. 'Booklist' chose 'Dead I May Well Be' to be included in its ten best crime novels of the year. The plot is often brutal and dark which McKinty describes vividly.

Plot summary



Michael Forsythe leaves Belfast mid-Troubles after being caught working while claiming unemployment benefits. After arriving illegally in Brooklyn his only option for work is with a small but ambitious Irish gang run by Darkey White. After several jobs for White, Michael and three of his colleagues are sent to Mexico to carry out a drug deal, but one of the four betrays them leaving Michael in a squalid Mexican prison. After weeks of starvation and violent conflict with the other prisoners, Michael manages to escape and begins his journey back to America to seek revenge on his former boss and the colleague who betrayed him.

Notes



* Epigraph:

::"And if you come,

:when all the flowers are dying

:: And I am dead,

:as dead I well may be..." F. E. Weatherly, "Danny Boy," 1910, 'adapted from "The Londonderry Air"'

Reviews



* 'Publishers Weekly'

* 'The Guardian'

* ' Kirkus Reviews'

Awards and nominations



* 2004 nomination CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger

References



Category:2003 novels

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