Call Him Mine Reading Order
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| Call Him Mine | 2019 | Buy |
| How to Be Nowhere | 2020 | Buy |
Tim MacGabhann is an Irish writer from Kilkenny who has spent much of his adult life in Latin America. He moved to Mexico City in 2013 and worked as a journalist, filing stories for Reuters, Al Jazeera, and other outlets on drug violence and government corruption. That reporting work became the raw material for his fiction.
His debut novel, Call Him Mine (2019), follows an Irish journalist in Mexico whose photographer partner is murdered after they stumble onto a story too dangerous to pursue. The book was named a Daily Telegraph Thriller of the Year, with Lee Child praising its prose as the best writing about Mexico in English since Malcolm Lowry’s Under the Volcano. The sequel, How to Be Nowhere (2020), picks up with the same narrator, now a recovering addict living in Uruguay, who gets pulled back into the violence he tried to escape. The two novels are literary thrillers that read more like dispatches from the front than conventional genre fiction.