The Rules Of Backyard Cricket (Paperback)

Paperback. A brilliant literary thriller in the tradition of Peter Temple's Truth, from a rising star of Australian fiction.It starts in a suburban backyard with Darren Keefe and his older brother, sons of a fierce and gutsy single mother. The endless glow of summer, the bottomless fury of contest. All the love and hatred in two small bodies poured into the rules of a made-up game.Darren has two big talents: cricket and trouble. No surprise that he becomes an Australian sporting star of the bad-boy variety-one of those men who's always got away with things and just keeps getting.Until the day we meet him, middle aged, in the boot of a car. Gagged, cable-tied, a bullet in his knee. Everything pointing towards a shallow grave. A lawless ride through the life of a famed sportsman. A gripping literary examination of masculinity, celebrity, crime and sport. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.