Amaze Your Friends

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As 1959 dawns, Billy Glasheen is in deeper trouble than ever. The past has caught up with him in the form of Fred Slaney, Sydney's meanest, most corrupt cop, who's got Billy framed up for the murder of his crooked partner. Not that Slaney wants to arrest him - what he wants is ten grand. He gives Billy a choice - pay up within six months, or take early retirement, forever. Billy can't think of a legal way to come up with the money that fast, and anyway, earning an honest living has never been his strength.

So what's the answer Up the ante on Uncle Dick's mailorder scams Rig a horse race or two Rob a bank Maybe all of the above Surely something will work...and it does, though not in the way you might expect - and not before Billy's situation gets a whole lot worse.

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"One of the finest and most entertaining writers this country has produced. Doyle is the king, his books steeped in a witty, instinctive hostility to all authority, consistently lurid . . . and completely original in voice."--Graeme Blundell "The Australian"
"Think of a hopped-up James M. Cain."