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A Bitch Called Tracy
Alexander Godfrey
Craig Godfrey
出版
Warren Boyles
, 2018-08-15
主題
Social Science / Criminology
ISBN
0648141365
9780648141365
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=RxoPuAEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
It's Australia in the 1970s and Australia is awakening. The shameful Viet Nam war has brought politics, Yankee servicemen and drugs to the streets. Nowhere was this more so than Sydney's Kings Cross. This was a world where gambling and prostitution were illegal and flourishing, Where everything was hidden in plain sight in 'The Cross'. The NSW police force, it was openly said, was the 'best that money could buy'. Looking the other way was a NSW art form.A sharp eyed and straight copper finds himself involved in three different murders. One of the victims is Roxy, a working girl, who is brutally murdered. Her boyfriend, Jack McCalister is immediately a suspect. Roxy had been the mistress of a crime boss who still held a soft spot for her. Jack is tipped off that both the cops and two hit-men are looking for him and decides that discretion is the best option.This is all told so vividly that one suspects that author has lived a little more closely to the shady side of 70s Sydney than most of us.Then the story shifts to Darwin, Jack was never the only person seeking to hide from his past in Darwin. Now a bitch called Tracy becomes the central character of this story. The bitch Tracy is a massive category five cyclone that arrives over the city at Xmas 1974. She devastates the city and is responsible for massive loss of life. Godfrey's depiction of the 'bitch' could only have been written by someone who lived through the horror of this cataclysmic event, which indeed he did.In this chaotic mess, Jack is pursued by two Sydney cops and the two hit-men. In the meantime, he has met a significant woman, a Tasmanian, who must decide if he is guilty of a horrible crime or is simply a lovable rogue. The story twists and turns and in the end justice is done though the suspense lingers right to the end of the story. This is Tasmania's finest storyteller at his very best.
