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Amaze Your Friends (Billy Glasheen, Bk 2)
Amaze Your Friends - Billy Glasheen, Bk 2 Author:Peter Doyle Sydney, 1959. Billy Glasheen, lurk merchant and low-life, can't take a trick. The past has caught up with him in the form of Fred Slaney, Sydney's meanest, crookedest cop, who wants ten thousand pounds to keep quiet about Glasheen's involvement in the death of a fellow cop. Billy isn't the killer, but he's in it up to his nec... more »k and he's an easy target. He's given a simple choice: pay up in six months or take early retirement, six feet down, looking at the sky.
Amaze Your Friends picks up where Get Rich Quick left off and is an hilarious romp through the underside of Sydney at the turn of the decade. It's a world of bodgies and beatniks, reefer smoking, popping dexes, racetrack lurks, seedy promoters, rock'n'roll shows, and drunks on skid row. There are cameos from real-life people - Rex Mossop playing his first grand final, Paul Keating as an up-and-coming band manager in the western suburbs, the legendary rock promoter Lee Gordon, and the stripper Sabrina. Peter Doyle has meticulously researched the era and he writes with an eye for detail that takes you right into it.« less