Dead Men Should Know Better

by Dominic Canty

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Paperback

First published November 27, 2012

About the author

Dominic was born in London, where he still lives and works, and regularly writes for local newspapers and magazines. After a number of years on the music and stand-up comedy circuits, he turned his focus to fiction and studied creative writing. He is a passionate scuba diver, an aficionado of the marine world and its inhabitants – in particular the great white shark – and is an active conservationist.
Dead Men Should Know Better is his first novel.
To find out more, please visit http://www.dominiccanty.com

Reviews

[Jeroen Van de Crommenacker]

Charming, amusing and perfect light holiday reading. Can’t wait for the movie adaptation! And please when can we expect the sequel?!

[Josie Aston]

Good Men Should Know Better rattles along, taking the reader from one glamorous location to another, rather in the manner of a Bond film, but one we can all join in. The hapless Bristo Trabant gets caught up in Secret Service activities that he's totally unsuited to - at that point it could have turned into Mr Bean or Austin Powers, but fortunately Bristo's a more sympathetic character than that.

Dominic Canty can't resist a joke. Some are good while some are (presumably intentionally) very bad. There is a lot of word play and amusing descriptions. Characters are either honourable or very bad, but all memorable. The action is fast-paced and well described, with almost cartoon-like sound effects.

I would recommend this as beach or commuter reading, as well as for getting teenage boys who are reluctant readers into a longer narrative.