Tasker Tusker Tasker - Couverture souple

Reed, Bill

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0994239904 ISBN 13 : 9780994239907

Editeur : Reed Independent, 2015

Synopsis

"This secretive load I have shuffled around with..."----------John Tasker is a divided, but enjoined, man. Physically he is running from the law while hunting down his own father, just as his father used to track down the wild tuskers in Sri Lanka. At the same time, mentally, he is tracking down his murderous brother’s enemies, imaginably or not, with a deadly efficiency.Adding to his confusion is how his indolent lawyer’s job in the Attorney-General’s Department has itself suddenly become fraught with danger for his own personal safety. The resultant clash that erupts between his fervently-adopted Australia and his fervently-rejected Sri Lanka isn’t helping the mental chaos he is thrown into on an otherwise perfectly-acceptable day.One trouble is his state of being so enjoined. Through his own mind’s-eye he sees how his own milieu has been drawing him inevitably towards the cliff’s edge. Also through his-and-his-brother’s mind’s-eye he sees too much of the terrorizing worldwide Tamil organizations, and from a close-up much too gory. And through his-and-his-father’s mind’s-eye he sees no good nurture purpose to his existence, except the sighing and dying and the leavings from him.He can see how it’s all so willfully like his father’s wild snared tuskers endeavouring to escape, trying to drag the lines dragging the antler’d sambhur’s skulls through the hopelessly impossible bush. On top of all this, he has the living scaffold of the Sri Lankan Inspector Ekanayake now-and-ever looming over him. The Inspector doesn’t care a hoot about any mind’s-eye or mind’s-eyes, ‘bloody ****ing hell sorry’. He only cares for the hunt’s conclusion, and how John Tasker should know it.What is the Inspector doing in Canberra and asking so many pointed questions? What might he know about the shadowy and murderous Tasker twin brother with, apparently, the justified alias of Tusker? All John Tasker can now see is how his world and the manic world of his fearsome brother are being forced to converge so suddenly and so bizarrely.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Bill Reed is an award-winning Australian novelist, playwright and short-story writer with national awards in each of these categories. On the cover of his last mainstream novel, Hyland House Publishing enthused that Tusk was another novel from ‘one of the great originals of Australian literature... and one of our few writers of international substance’. But then, in those days, he lived within the Australian publishing and literary worlds. Now he dwells outside the gates.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Reed Independent
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0994239904
• ISBN 13: 9780994239907
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 378
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Manufactured by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.fr/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxembourg