Dying Well: A Comic Novel of Revenge

Ben is hell bent on revenge. On both of the bastards. He's got the motivation, he's working on getting the means (in addition to the gun), and he's got plans for how to get the opportunities. But he doesn't have a lot of time left, and he can't tell his buddy Jack. Worse, he can't tell his ex-wife. Double worse, he's conflicted. Is it the right thing to do? Is it the moral thing to do? He knows he can write about it, but can he, at age 75, actually do it?

There are laughs and tears in this spiraling tale of a retired academic on the road of revenge. Sprinkled with quirky characters, not least a cane-wielding 79-year-old whose outrageous rants ignite the conscience and delight the ear, this is the the tale of Ben Silverman who chases his own tail from Salt Lake City to Denver to Philadelphia in the hope of Dying Well.

Auteur

Tom Markus has written books on theatre (A Novel Approach to Theatre, An Actor Behaves), an ex-pat's reminiscence (The Cairo Diaries), a college text book (Another Opening, Another Show, 3rd ed.), and plays that have been produced in America and internationally. He has worked in theatre as a director and actor from Broadway to Hollywood, and he has taught at Yale, University of California, Flinders University of South Australia, and the American University in Cairo. He is retired (undefeated) and lives in San Diego. Dying Well is his first novel. www.tommarkus.com