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Tony
Feb 12, 2014 rated it it was ok
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I picked up this Australian crime novel largely based on the cover tagline: "Winner of the Ned Kelly Award for Best First Fiction." I read a ton of crime fiction, and especially enjoy writers from other counties. However, fifty pages in, I was really questioning whether or not I really needed to read this book. I gave it another 75 pages, and just set it aside for good.

The story revolves around three men on the downslope of life. Lee is a young ex-con on the run, lying in a seedy motel room with
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