Killing Superman

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ISBN: 
9781865089980
Year of Publication: 
2003
Publisher: 
Allen & Unwin
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Author's Home Country: 
Australia
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Category: 
Crime Fiction
Book Synopsis

Killing Superman is a novel of betrayals, love, family grief and the effects of war. Scott's father has been pronounced dead. His sister believes it's him so why can't Scott? An intimate and stunning portrayal of a father-son relationship.

He swings his right arm forward, a brief flick of the wrist so we see the Rolex Oyster watch, and takes up that unmistakable confidence of gait. He moves from the hips, legs forward, arms swinging, head high, and I know that marching that soldier s march towards me is my soldier father, who I haven't seen since I was fourteen, and at whose funeral I couldn't cry because I was so sure he wasn't dead.

Now in his thirties in Brisbane, Scott Goodwin has spent half his life chasing a shadow superman, believing his apparently dead father is alive somewhere. Scott meets journalist Emily Duval who might help him. But Emily has shadows of her own. When Scott sees his father on a beach in the south of France, he must confront the truth, about his father and about Emily.

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