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‘If we can’t find a bodyguard for May, how are we going to persuade someone to kill to kill Wallace?’
This is the critical question for the Baxter men as they seek to protect May, their daughter and sister, from her husband, Wallace. Their answer: to try to involve Pearce, a local hard man (tough guy).
This is an action-filled novel: peopled with dysfunctional individuals. This is not a novel that requires (or even invites) detailed analysis. The equation is simple: stupid people doing stupid things. But doing them in a way that has you wondering how far they will go and what the outcomes might be.
This novel is full of gratuitous violence, moronic behaviour and with a deep undercurrent of black humour. The most likeable character, for me, was Pearce’s three-legged (male) dog, Hilda.
This is the critical question for the Baxter men as they seek to protect May, their daughter and sister, from her husband, Wallace. Their answer: to try to involve Pearce, a local hard man (tough guy).
This is an action-filled novel: peopled with dysfunctional individuals. This is not a novel that requires (or even invites) detailed analysis. The equation is simple: stupid people doing stupid things. But doing them in a way that has you wondering how far they will go and what the outcomes might be.
This novel is full of gratuitous violence, moronic behaviour and with a deep undercurrent of black humour. The most likeable character, for me, was Pearce’s three-legged (male) dog, Hilda.
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