The Art of Staying Dead

A prisoner who doesn’t exist.
A lawyer who doesn’t care.
A secret buried for thirty years.

Sam Williams’ idea of an important decision is whether to have another kebab for lunch. He’s spent ten years running away from other people’s pain, and he’s learned not to look back. Sam needs a client, and for a human rights lawyer with a flexible conscience and an impatient landlord, a high security prison seems a decent bet to find one. But now the bodies are mounting up, the decisions are getting serious, and the pain isn’t someone else’s any more.

Someone wants him dead, the police would like a word, and there’s nowhere left in London to hide. If Sam wants to stay alive, he’s going to have to stop running and figure out why.

Take a look on Amazon – UK or US, or your local store – see what readers are already saying about The Art of Staying Dead, and hit play at the bottom of the screen for the explosive ninety second trailer.

Fans of action packed and fast paced thrillers will love this book. There is certainly one twist towards the end of the book which literally made my jaw drop open as I was not expecting it.

This is a great thriller, taut, fast paced, certainly the best I have read for many a year.

This is a fantastic book, with moments of comedy as well as the fast paced action and intrigue. A great story with heroes and villains and twists and turns. I’m going to seek out everything else available by this author.

Excellent read. A non-stop thriller that gets your heart racing from page 1 and doesn’t let up until the end, The Art of Staying Dead gives the reader a set of fascinating, believable characters and a clever plot with plenty of twists and turns on the way. Fans of Kernick, Child or Grisham will not be disappointed.

If you enjoy a fast paced thriller then this novel is definitely for you.

This is one of my favourite reads this year, and I look forward to reading more from Joel Hames

The author has no problems throwing the reader straight into the thick of it, and had my mind cowering in the corner of a room in the middle of a prison riot, within minutes of starting to read this. I thought that was bad enough, but that is only the beginning of the fast-paced and thrilling action that will have you running for your life.