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Informationen zum Autor G. S. Manson, former meat-packer, barman, rock journalist, demolition man, porno salesman, roller-disco mechanic, and debt collector, now divides his time between laying down hypnotic funk grooves as half of indigenous trance band GURIGURU and trying to run an organic pecan farm. He also has no trouble walking the mean streets of his own mind as a crime writer with a uniquely Australian voice. Klappentext BRISBANE, 1943. Overnight a provincial Australian city has become the main Allied staging post for the war in the Pacific. The tensions ? social, sexual, and racial ? created by the arrival of thousands of US troops are stirring up all kinds of mayhem, and Brisbane’s once quiet streets are looking pretty mean. Enter P.I. Jack Munro, a World War I veteran and ex-cop with a nose for trouble and a stubborn dedication to exposing the truth, however inconvenient it is for the -powers that be. He’s not always a particularly good man, but he’s the one you want on your side when things look bad. When Jack is hired by a knockout blonde to find her no-good missing husband, he turns over a few rocks he’s not supposed to. Soon the questions are piling up, and so are the bodies. But Jack forges on through the dockside bars, black-market warehouses, and segregated brothels of his roiling city, uncovering greed and corruption eating away at the foundations of the war effort.Then Jack is hired to investigate a suspicious suicide, and there’s a whole new cast of characters for him to deal with ? a father surprisingly unmoved by his son’s death, a dodgy priest, crooked cops, Spanish Civil War refugees ? and a wall of silence between him and the truth, which has its roots deep in the past. Friends, enemies, the police ? they’re all warning Jack to back off. But he can’t walk away from a case: he has to do the square thing.Written in the spare, plain-spoken style of all great pulp fiction, G.S. Manson’s fast-paced debut captures the high stakes and nervous energy of wartime, when everything becomes a matter of life and death....
