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.

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 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.