Merrion Press 🔖is on the cusp of publishing a new book byDan Lawton.
COMING SOON
HUNTED The Kevin Barry Artt
Story His Wrongful
Conviction for Murder, Daring Escape from the Maze Prison and
Long Fight for Justice Dan Lawton
On Sunday, 26 November 1978, two IRA gunmen kicked
in the front door at 8 Evelyn Gardens in Belfast, the home of Maze
prison official Albert Miles. They executed Miles in front of his
family and vanished into the night.
In 1983
twenty-four-year-old Catholic taxi driver Kevin Barry Artt was
convicted and sentenced to life for Miles’ murder, falsely named by
an IRA member-turned-jailhouse-informant. On his way to the Maze in
handcuffs, Artt resolutely professed his innocence.
Six weeks into his life
sentence, he escaped in one of the most daring and notorious prison
breaks in history, fleeing to California and going underground. The
epic legal saga that followed spanned one ocean, two court systems
and nearly three decades, as Artt was relentlessly pursued by the
British government, aided by the US Department of State and the
FBI.
Dan Lawton discovered
the vital piece of evidence that caused the Northern Ireland Court
of Appeal to throw out Artt’s murder case in 2020, and in Hunted, he has forensically chronicled Kevin Barry
Artt’s surreal story of survival and redemption.
Paperback • €19.99 | £17.99 • 400 pages
• 226 mm x 153 mm • 9781785375200
Dan Lawton is a writer and lawyer based in
California. His short fiction and columns have appeared in
The Recorder, Los Angeles Daily Journal, The Pensive Quill, The
Daily Transcript and Sheepshead
Review. Hunted is his first work of narrative
non-fiction.
Merrion Press 🔖is on the cusp of publishing a new book byDan Lawton.
COMING SOON
HUNTED The Kevin Barry Artt
Story His Wrongful
Conviction for Murder, Daring Escape from the Maze Prison and
Long Fight for Justice Dan Lawton
On Sunday, 26 November 1978, two IRA gunmen kicked
in the front door at 8 Evelyn Gardens in Belfast, the home of Maze
prison official Albert Miles. They executed Miles in front of his
family and vanished into the night.
In 1983
twenty-four-year-old Catholic taxi driver Kevin Barry Artt was
convicted and sentenced to life for Miles’ murder, falsely named by
an IRA member-turned-jailhouse-informant. On his way to the Maze in
handcuffs, Artt resolutely professed his innocence.
Six weeks into his life
sentence, he escaped in one of the most daring and notorious prison
breaks in history, fleeing to California and going underground. The
epic legal saga that followed spanned one ocean, two court systems
and nearly three decades, as Artt was relentlessly pursued by the
British government, aided by the US Department of State and the
FBI.
Dan Lawton discovered
the vital piece of evidence that caused the Northern Ireland Court
of Appeal to throw out Artt’s murder case in 2020, and in Hunted, he has forensically chronicled Kevin Barry
Artt’s surreal story of survival and redemption.
Paperback • €19.99 | £17.99 • 400 pages
• 226 mm x 153 mm • 9781785375200
Dan Lawton is a writer and lawyer based in
California. His short fiction and columns have appeared in
The Recorder, Los Angeles Daily Journal, The Pensive Quill, The
Daily Transcript and Sheepshead
Review. Hunted is his first work of narrative
non-fiction.
Former IRA volunteer and ex-prisoner, spent 18 years in Long Kesh, 4 years on the blanket and no-wash/no work protests which led to the hunger strikes of the 80s. Completed PhD at Queens upon release from prison. Left the Republican Movement at the endorsement of the Good Friday Agreement, and went on to become a journalist. Co-founder of The Blanket, an online magazine that critically analyzed the Irish peace process. Lead researcher for the Belfast Project, an oral history of the Troubles.
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