Gull by Glenn Patterson review – fictionalised take on the doomed DeLorean

The story of the manufacture of the DMC-12 in Northern Ireland is so strange that you couldn’t make it up - well, almost

In Glenn Patterson’s colourful novel about John DeLorean’s infamous, gull-winged sports car manufactured in Northern Ireland, the enigmatic entrepreneur-engineer dreams of seeing his futuristic creation in a movie. Of course, the DMC-12 would go on to become one of the most famous automobiles in cinema, as Doc’s time machine in Back to the Future. But by then, the DeLorean Motor Company was bankrupt.

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