THE WELKINN COMPLEX Psychological-Psychiatric Thriller Revised Edition Dr Strongbow, Director of The Excelsior Clinic in Guernsey is testing a new drug, 'XcellN' that can erase trauma and severe mental disabilities under controlled clinical conditions. Treatment is expensive and some of the clients (patients) are volunteers seeking escape from traumatic eclipse. Strongbow hires a fireball American, Dr Welkinn who begins an affair with Rosy Siggins of the Pandora Hotel.With the arrival of Welkinn's wife, Kay from America the Excelsior Clinic radiates fall-out not least involving Rosy and a Satanic Cult among a list of extremes leading to tragedy. 'Welkinn is surrounded by people who are cracking up and yet he functions with a cold detachment.' Tony Baillie 'The Irish News' 'Though the opening suggests a riff on Mel Brooks' movie "High Anxiety" the reader is quickly absorbed by an engrossing "noir" and serious read.' Geoffrey Elliott 'I Spy: The Secret Life of a British Agent' 'Kiely has written an international sensation. The Welkinn Complex is a doorway to the realities and cover ups interwoven into the ulterior motives of the treating physicians and drug manufacturers. The Welkinn Complex is the deliverance of realities through a complex fictional work.' Colin Sinclair 'The Janet Brook's Chronicles'
About the Author: Kevin Kiely poet, novelist, literary critic, raconteur and American Fulbright Scholar gained his Doctorate in modernist and postmodernist poetry from University College Dublin. He was born in County Down (Northern Ireland) and has received six Arts Council Bursaries in Literature, a Kavanagh Fellowship in Poetry and a Bisto Award for Fiction. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Iowa International Writing Programme, was visiting Professor of English in Boise State University and the University of Idaho (Moscow), and has taught Romantic Literature at UCD. His critical commentaries on poetry, the arts, and cultural issues have appeared in Village Magazine, Hibernia, Irish Examiner, Irish Studies Review, Honest Ulsterman, Fortnight, Books Ireland, The London Magazine, The Irish Book Review, Poetry Ireland Review, Irish Times, The Irish Independent, Irish Arts Review, Inis, Irish Literary Review, Idaho Arts Quarterly and Humanities (DC) among other publications. Published titles include A Horse Called El Dorado (O'Brien Press, 2005) Bisto Award. Breakfast with Sylvia (Lagan Press, 2006) Patrick Kavanagh Fellowship Award. Francis Stuart: Artist and Outcast Official Biography (Liffey Press, Dublin 2007; Dufour, PA 2008). The Welkinn Complex (Number One Son, Florida, FL., 2011). SOS Lusitania 2012 (O'Brien Press, 2012) which was the 'One Book One Community' in the Lusitania Centenary year of 2015. Immortals Vol. I 1941-1981 (Amazon, 2015). Plays on RTÉ Children of No Importance and Multiple Indiscretions. Selected Anthology Listings: Something Sensational To Read in the Train anthology foreword: Brendan Kennelly (Lemon Soap Press, Dublin 2005); Catullus: One Man of Verona anthology ed. Ronan Sheehan (Farmar & Farmar Ltd., 2010); Ends & Beginnings anthology eds John Gery and William Pratt (AMS Press Inc., New York 2011); A Map of Melancholy (long poem) in Windows Anthology eds. Heather Brett and Noel Monahan 2012; In Place of Love and Country eds Richard Parker & John Gery (Crater Press, London 2013); Liberty, Come Galloping Salvation, Flower: Poets Worldwide Anthology ed. Kamran Mir Hazar, (Kabul Press 2013); Still Anthology Ed. Chelley McLear (CAP, Belfast 2014).