Dead I Well May Be

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Dead I Well May Be
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First edition
Author Adrian McKinty
Language English
SeriesMichael Forsythe
Genre crime novel
Publisher Scribner
Publication date
2003
Publication place United States
Media typePrint (Paperback)
Pages320
ISBN 9781846686993
Followed byThe Dead Yard 

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. [1] Booklist chose Dead I May Well Be to be included in its ten best crime novels of the year. [2] The plot is often brutal and dark which McKinty describes vividly.

Contents

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

"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"

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Awards and nominations

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References

  1. 1 2 Guttridge, Peter (6 March 2005). "There goes the neighbourhood". The Guardian. Retrieved 23 April 2018.
  2. ↑ Levy, Lisa (17 March 2016). "Adrian Mckinty: Working Class Hero of Irish Crime Fiction". Literary Hub. Retrieved 24 April 2018.
  3. ↑ "Dead I May Well Be". 1 September 2003. Retrieved 24 April 2018.
  4. ↑ Jakubowski, Maxim (12 June 2004). ""The Afterlife"". The Guardian.
  5. ↑ "Kirkus Review". 1 August 2003. Retrieved 24 April 2018.
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