Born: Established: 1942 ;
Gender:
Male
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Most Referenced Works
Personal Awards
- 2014 recipient Order of Australia — Member of the Order of Australia (AM) For significant service to the community through the establishment of the Starlight Children's Foundation, and to the visual and performing arts.
Awards for Works
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The Butcherbird
Crows Nest
:
Allen and Unwin
,
2007
Z1377138
2007
single work
novel
crime
thriller
'Set in the boardrooms, yachts and waterfront mansions of Australia's most decadent city, The Butcherbird is a boisterous thriller about corruption and excess in the corporate world.
'Jack Beaumont, architect turned property developer, is as surprised as the next person when he is approached by insurance tycoon Mac Biddulph to become the new CEO of HOA, the largest home-insurer in Australia. Seduced at first by the lure of power, Jack soon finds that beneath the glamorous facade of the Sydney business elite lies a convoluted network of corruption. Out of his depth and pursued by piranhas in a fish tank full of money, Jack must unravel the elusive threads or become ensnared himself.' (Publisher's blurb)
- 2008 nominated Ned Kelly Awards for Crime Writing — Best First Novel
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