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Amaze Your Friends

Amaze Your Friends is a wild and funny trip through the underside of Sydney at the turn of a decade - a world of bodgies and beatniks, reefer smoking and pill popping. It's Sydney 1959 and Billy, lurk merchant and low life, can't take a trick.

The past has caught up with him as Sydney's meanest, crookedest cop wants ten thousand pounds to keep the peace.

Billy is given a simple choice - pay up in six months or take an early retirement, six feet down, looking at the sky. Should he run? Should he hide? Or sneak down to Chinatown for another pipe?

Author

Peter Doyle

Peter Doyle was born in Maroubra, in Sydney's eastern suburbs. He worked as a taxi driver, - musician, and teacher before writing Get Rich Quick, which won the Ned Kelly Award for Best First Crime Novel in 1997. Its sequel, Amaze Your Friends, won the Ned Kelly Award for Best Crime Novel in 1998, followed in 2001 by The Devil's Jump, the third book in Doyle's Billy Glasheen series. Doyle lives in Newtown, where he divides his time between writing and teaching. He is also a part-time curator at Sydney's Justice and Police Museum.

Country of Origin
Australia
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Author
Australia
Peter Doyle

Books:

Series:

Series: Akashic Noir

Series: Billy Glasheen
ISBN
0091836565
Year of Publication
1998
Publisher
Random House Australia
Genre
Crime Fiction
Series
Billy Glasheen
Book Number (in series)
3

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