JJL Green’s Famously Dead is a superbly crafted, non-linear story of four old university friends who begin a game while students, which culminates eighteen years later when Michael Jackson dies and they have accumulated one million pounds which must be spent on a trip away.
Much has changed for the friends in the intervening years and the trip takes a turn for the worse when Piers is kidnapped and held to ransom. Tied inextricably with the game of poker, each chapter is a ‘card’ and represents a poker-playing term. Fast-moving, with countless twists and turns.
Heddon Books 