The Refuge (Paperback)

Kenneth Mackenzie

ISBN 10: 1922182656 / ISBN 13: 9781922182654

Published by Text Publishing, Melbourne, 2015

About this Item

Paperback. Late at night Lloyd Fitzherbert, police reporter with the Sydney Gazette, is picked up by his man in CIB for a 'quick job' at the morgue. A body has been found in the harbour. Irma, a beautiful young woman who fled persecution in Nazi Europe, is dead. She was Fitzherbert's lover. And, though the police don't know it yet, he killed her. Kenneth Mackenzie's last novel is utterly different to his lauded debut, The Young Desire It (2014 Text edition available from Turnaround), yet it shares the psychological acuity that is fast becoming Mackenzie's trademark. A page-turning thriller. Its central question is not who murdered the beautiful emigre from war-torn Europe, but how and why? Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Refuge (Paperback)
• Publisher: Text Publishing, Melbourne
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1922182656
• ISBN 13: 9781922182654
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

"The history of a crime told as excitingly and with as much dramatic tension as anything by Graham Greene or Raymond Chandler."—Sun

Late at night Lloyd Fitzherbert, police reporter with the Sydney Gazette, is called for a meeting at the morgue. A body has been found in the harbor. Irma, a beautiful young woman who fled persecution in Nazi Europe, is dead. She was Fitzherbert's lover. And though the police don't know it yet, he was her killer. Gripping and atmospheric, The Refuge is a murderer's confession—a tale of wartime Sydney with its paranoia about communism and spies.

About the Author

Kenneth Mackenzie was born in 1913 in South Perth.The Young Desire It was published by Jonathan Cape (1937), when the author was just twenty-three. He received a number of awards, including the Australian Literary Society Gold Medal. He died in 1955, in New South Wales.

Nicolas Rothwell: Nicolas Rothwell is the award-winning author of Heaven and Earth, Wings of the Kite-Hawk, Another Country, The Red Highwayand Journeys to the Interior. His most recent book, Belomor, was shortlisted for a Prime Minister’s Literary Award. He lives in Darwin, and is the Australian’s roving northern correspondent.