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Single father and true believer, Murray Whelan thinks the life of a political minder is complicated enough with an ex-wife and intimations of intrigue among the party powerful. But throw in a Turk in a local meat plant, a stiff in the purest sense of the word, drugs planted under the bed,, break-ins, and blood-sucking parasites, and Murray soon finds things fatally out of control.
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About the Author
Shane Maloney, winner of the Ned Kelly Award for Best Crime Fiction, is also the author of The Brush-Off, Nice Try, and The Big Ask. He is a newspaper columnist in Melbourne.
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It's no skin off Murray Whelan's nose when gargantuan Ekrem Bayraktar, shift supervisor at the Pacific Pastoral meat-packing plant in Coolaroo, is found squeezed among the higher-grade meats in Pacific's #3 freezer. But when you're the electorate officer serving the constituents of Charlene Wills, Australia's Minister for Industry, you never know which constituents may need service. Soon, Charlene's Machiavellian adviser Angelo Agnelli is hissing that Murray (The Brush-Off, 1998) needs to investigate the possibility of labor discontents at the Pacific Pastoral plant in order to keep rising municipal councillor Joe Collicato from challenging Charlene. It's a circuitous route to an investigation, but once Murray discovers that Bayraktar's crew included the Turkish equivalents of Robert Redford and Santa Claus, nothing can pull him off the scentnot his impending divorce and child-custody suit; not his budding friendship with Ayisha Celik, of the Australian Turkish Welfare League; not the episodes in which his house gets broken into and he nearly gets run down by somebody driving Bayraktar's car; and certainly not the unsought and comically premature confession he hears to Bayraktar's murder. Americans willing to take in the dirty linen of the political system Down Under will come away with a middling mystery, some finely honed action scenes, and an earful of Maloney's lovely epitomes of the Australian Labor Party, ``an organization which, next to itself, loves the working man best.'' -- Copyright ©1999, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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- PublisherNo Imprint
- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 1875847006
- ISBN 13 9781875847006
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages217
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good+. 1997 reprint. A Murray Whelan Thriller set in suburban Melbourne. No creases to spine. Cover shows arm with a lit cigarette, against a chalk outline on bitumen.100gms weight ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 218 pages. Seller Inventory # 16184
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Melobourne: Text Publishing, 1994, reprinted 1997. Soft cover. 217 p. Very Good+: unread? Almost as new except for tiny bumps to a couple of pages at the top. Wry, fast, sarcastic and funny, Murray Whelan, political fixer in Melbourne ( "throw in a snap-frozen Turk, fascist funeral rites, the tattooed vote, a killer car, blood-sucking parasites.") finds his world spinning out of control in a thoroughly entertaining way. Seller Inventory # 000663
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Soft Cover. Condition: VG. First Edition. 8vo. original printed paper wraps (rubbed & creased, prev. owner's name to first page); pp. [vi (last blank)], 318 (last blank). A very good copy. The first in the Murray Whelan series of crime novels, the author's debut book. Seller Inventory # 031926
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