OPINION - Deadly Game review: Michael Caine is a peerless actor, but how’s his first novel?
by Hamish MacBain
Nov 24, 2023
3 minutes
Perhaps he was inspired by Alan Garner who, at 88, last year became the oldest ever person to be nominated for the Booker Prize. Maybe as “a life-long reader of thrillers” he thought, as most life-long readers of thrillers do at some point, that thrillers quite often seem formulaic and thus not that hard to knock out.
More likely, I think, having read Deadly Game, is that its author was thinking back to all the not-that-great maverick
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