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Andrew Masterson Andrew Masterson i(A19502 works by)
Born: Established: 1961 ;
Gender: Male
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BiographyHistory

Masterson came to Australia from the United Kingdom in 1968 and has lived between the two countries ever since. He has been a journalist since 1984, contributing extensively to newspapers and magazines. Masterson writes about art, design, music, popular culture and television. He has also covered hard news stories filed from London, Berlin, New York and Miami.

At the age of nineteen, Masterson worked as a human statue outside nightclubs in Perth, Western Australia, to attract patrons. John the Baptist was his favourite impersonation. He is the author of Rocking in the Real World: an introduction to the music industry in Australia (1999), Pop, Print & Publicity (2001), Alcorobics: fitness and harmony through drinking (2003) and co-author with Adele Lang of Bosstrology: a guide to the twelve bastard bosses of the Zodiac (2003).

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Awards for Works

y separately published work icon The Second Coming : The Passion of Joe Panther Pymble : Flamingo , 2000 Z668768 2000 single work novel crime

''There is no god,' I told him. Then I drove the syringe up into his nostril and straight through the side of his nose.' Joe Panther is a psychotic, alcoholic, violent, substance-abusing heroin dealer. He is also, he believes, Joshua Ben Pantera, born two thousand years ago, the son of Mary and the Lord God Yaweh Himself, not dead yet, the crucified Jesus: still around, abandoned by his Father, abused by the world, and as pissed off as hell.'

Source : publisher's blurb
2001 joint winner Ned Kelly Awards for Crime Writing — Best Novel
y separately published work icon The Letter Girl Chippendale : Picador , 1999 Z88495 1999 single work novel horror science fiction
1999 shortlisted Aurealis Awards for Excellence in Australian Speculative Fiction — Science Fiction Division — Best Novel
y separately published work icon The Last Days : The Apocryphon of Joe Panther Chippendale : Picador , 1998 Z377952 1998 single work novel crime

' Joe Panther is a man with many secrets. Dangerous secrets. He isa 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 melbounre inner-city church, the police suspect the local priest, a man with dark secrets of hiis 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.' (From back cover).
1999 winner Ned Kelly Awards for Crime Writing — Best First Novel
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