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Andrew Masterson is a journalist and author. An impressive array of awards for his work, he has twice won the Ned Kelly Award for Best Crime Novel, with The Last Days: The Apocryphon of Joe Panther (1998) and The Second Coming: The Passion of Joe Panther (2000). The Letter Girl (1999) was shortlisted for the Aurealis speculative fiction award. In 2001 he published his fourth novel, Death of the Author. Incidently, I love this next assertion in his profile...when he is not writing, he is generally drinking Guinness. Good one! These books sound like they're terrific off-beat hardboiled fare. |
| The Last Days: The Apocryphon of Joe Panther (1998)My Review | The Second Coming: The Passion of Joe Panther (2000) *** Buy *** |
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The Letter Girl (1999) |
Death of the Author (2001) *** Buy *** |
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The Last Days: The Apocryphon of Joe Panther : Joe Panther is a man with many secrets. Dangerous secrets. He is a drug dealer. He is a killer. He is a private investigator. Above all, he is the Messiah, fallen on hard times.
When a young woman is found crucified and decapitated in a Melbourne inner-city church, the police suspect the local priest, a man with dark secrets of his own. The priest hires Panther to clear his name.
Soon Panther becomes both the hunter and the hunted. Nothing is as it seems - not even, perhaps, Panther's own sense of self.
An Apocryphon is a secret book. The Last Days is Joe Panther's secret book, a gospel noir, a gripping and disturbing tale of death, devilment, dark humour and hard-boiled theology. |
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