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Sweet One - Couverture souple

Docker, Peter

 
9781922089755: Sweet One

Synopsis

When a senior Aboriginal war veteran dies horribly at the hands of state government authorities, Izzy, a journalist and daughter of a war veteran herself, flies to the goldfields of Western Australia to cover his death. But Izzy is about to learn that for every action there is an equal and bloody reaction. On the trail of the vigilantes, she finds herself embedded in a secret war that is finally, irrevocably, going to explode to the surface.

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Biographie de l'auteur

Peter Docker was born in Wiilman Country at Narrogin, Western Australia, and is of Irish, Cornish and English heritage. He grew up on a station in Wudjari Country at Coomalbidgup, near Esperance. He has worked as a dairy-hand, hay carter, wheat-bogger, window-washer, bank teller, lift driver and barman. He has written short stories published in Australian literary journals and has written for stage and radio. Someone Elses Country was his first book. He is currently writing a play about the Mickelbergs.

Présentation de l'éditeur

A senior aboriginal war veteran dies horribly at the hands of state government authorities and Izzy, journalist and daughter of a Vietnam vet, is sent to cover the story. The elder's death is the event that will destroy the uneasy and troubled 'peace' defining life in the north - west of Western Australia. In Northern Pakistan, Sweet One extracts himself from a fake war of mercenaries and druglords, to join his SAS brother Smokey to right this final, unbearable wrong.

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