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Author’s Note

The book you’ve just read, thanks for that by the way, was by far the most difficult novel I’ve written to date. I began with a very different story in mind, one in which Alex is duped by his wife who sells their child to Ennis to be his guinea pig.

I hated where that particular story took everyone, especially Sarah. I wanted her to be redeemed, to show that people can come back from addiction and from mental illness. I wanted my novel’s heroics to be performed by two women
–
they are the real heroes of the novel
–
and by two old guys. I wanted my book to be better, so I binned thousands of words and rewrote. Then I had problem after problem. More new pathways opened and then closed. Finally I found the character’s correct path and sailed through thirty thousand words in a week.

With the effort I put into this book, I’ve no idea if that gruelling work makes this novel my best, or my worst… Maybe neither. What I do know is that I’m glad to see the back of it.

Thank you for reading my book.

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Paul Carter is a Dead Man

by Ryan Bracha

"Bracha has established himself as one of the very best British authors, Indie or otherwise, with this wonderfully nasty, intelligent and exciting novel." -
Mark Wilson
, author of
Head Boy
and
dEaDINBURGH
"True to form, Bracha projects scenery and characters in the back of your brain that play out like a brilliantly directed movie. Then he smacks you in the frontal lobes with his dark wit and wry humour. Paul Carter is legendary in a future Britain that makes Big Brother look like a bitch." -
Craig Furchtenicht
, author of
Dimebag Bandits
In 2009 a bomb exploded, killing over 400 British citizens, including three generations of heir to the throne. Religious extremists took responsibility and the country went into meltdown. The British government was overthrown, and its troops withdrawn from overseas. The one-time empire closed its doors to the rest of the world. Law enforcement as it was no longer existed. The power was returned to the British people, and criminals were placed in online public courts for twenty four hours, to be judged.
The sentence for murder, death.
The sentence for anti-British behaviour, death.
The sentence for swearing, death.
In 2014 Paul Carter kills a man, and is now on the run. The thing is, Paul is smart. He's had enough of the new regime, and he's not the only one. He finds himself as an accidental revolutionary, and the voice of the disillusioned masses. He must learn to embrace the responsibility that has been thrust into his lap, and kick hard against a system which has failed everybody.
Paul Carter is a Dead Man
is a horrifying glimpse into the future from the Amazon best-selling author of
Strangers Are Just Friends You Haven't Killed Yet
and is set to be the first book of the
Dead Man
trilogy.

Available now on Amazon,
UK
and Amazon,
US

This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to real persons, alive or dead, is coincidental and not intended by the author.

First Kindle Edition, 2014

Text Copyright©2014 Mark Wilson

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