The Refuge

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Late at night Lloyd Fitzherbert, police reporter with the Sydney Gazette, is picked up by his man in CIB for a 'quick job' at the morgue. A body has been found in the harbour. Irma, a beautiful young woman who fled persecution in Nazi Europe, is dead. She was Fitzherbert's lover. And, though the police don't know it yet, he killed her. Kenneth Mackenzie's last novel is utterly different to his lauded debut, The Young Desire It (2014 Text edition available from Turnaround), yet it shares the psychological acuity that is fast becoming Mackenzie's trademark.

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'The history of a crime told as excitingly and with as much dramatic tension as anything by Graham Greene or Raymond Chandler.' -- Kenneth Slessor Sun 'Remarkable...A genuine personal tragedy.' -- A. D. Hope Sydney Morning Herald 'Fascinating, extremely skilful and subtle.' Sun-Herald One of our most gifted novelists.' Sunday Observer 'The Refuge is also a stunning enactment of its central idea. It could have been filmed by Hitchcock.' Age

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