Earlier this year, Tom Hanks also published a debut novel. I confess that I’ve avoided reading any of the books written by these actors for much the same reason I wouldn’t go to them to have my brake cable fixed or my filling repaired, because I figure that there are other, trained people who would almost certainly do a better job. This Grand Hotel-style ensemble ranges from Ethan Hawke to Marlon Brando to Carrie Fisher to Gene Hackman to Caine’s erstwhile Dirty Rotten Scoundrels co-star, Steve Martin. In publishing Deadly Game, the actor turned novelist joins a line of other actor turned novelists. Everything else (the Nazis, the Colombians, dodgy Vladimir) is 100% uncut Michael Caine. Caine says he got the basic idea from a newspaper story he once read about two East End blokes who found uranium on the rubbish tip. Also in the mix: a couple of neo-Nazis, a Colombian drug cartel (possibly several, going from the press release) and a pair of cockney refuse collectors.

Potential suspects include a posh art dealer called Julian Smythe, and a dodgy oligarch, Vladimir Voldrev. But in finally completing the thing, Caine has indirectly written himself a happy ending of sorts – the most knackered and lovely writer’s cliche of them all.Īccording to Caine’s publishers, Deadly Game is “a cracking thriller with a real voice and a super twist”, although quite frankly, what else would they say? Specifically, it’s about a London DCI, Harry Taylor, who’s on the trail of a stash of uranium. “Punctuation, all that.” The book might be awful. The 90-year mainstay of British cinema spent lockdown writing his first novel, tapping away at his iPad every day, toiling to master the intricacies of the craft. G od spare us another millionaire actor who fancies themself as a bestselling author –unless the actor is Michael Caine, in which case good on him, raise your glass.

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