Galaxy Motel

<p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>When the World turns against you. Who can YOU call?</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>...dial the trio from Firefly Electrics Co!</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Meet the new breed of public protectors today in this bestselling series of crime thrillers with a dark comedy twist...</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Artful avengers dangerous subversives lovely young men. Lennie and Joe abetted by their sharp-witted companion Rawcus the cockatoo have heard it all. It's all true.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Suburban electricians by day at night they fight crime in the shadows of the city; crime the Establishment can't touch - or is part of. Now they are wanted for Crimes against Crime.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Lennie calls it re-wiring society. Joe reckons they're simply fixing bad people. Rawcus who grew up in a pub just wants a cold beer after a hard day on the power grid...</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>...In Galaxy Motel the team from Firefly Electrics is haunted by underworld rumours that have linked them to a fortune in cash belonging to terrorists which fell onto a city wharf during a cargo-loading accident.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>When visitors carrying unusual tools and wearing hardhats and sunglasses knock on their front door the trio needs to dance fast to avoid losing life or limb. They enlist the help of a blow-up doll named Mavis a homemade electric chair and the Galaxy Motel.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Meanwhile their childhood friend Pauline Gerrity needs assistance to deal with a professional man who has a keen eye for underage girls who reside at Pauline's refuge for abused mothers and their children. They've dubbed the man Mr Teflon for good reason: he's a police force insider with a degree in psychology. Could a fantastic trip to a beach house help to rewire Mr T's soul and make the world safer?</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>One thing's for sure Lennie Joe and Rawcus keep learning that the best-laid plans of cockatoos and men often go awry. Lennie is planning a seance to give the Scottish poet Robbie Burns an update on his fabled mice angle...</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Crime suspense master Mark Furness finished publishing his trilogy of offbeat comic-noir Sydney 'Firefly Electrics' novels with the little cracker 'Galaxy Motel'...I just love this series. Reckon Mark has found his metier. Tom Flood Winner of the Miles Franklin Award Australia's equivalent of the US Pulitzer Prize for fiction and the UK Booker Prize.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Redolent of Lord Of The Flies and Of Mice And Men...A post-Zen Batman and Robin...Lennie and Joe and their pet Rawcus configure a doctorate in elegant fair-minded Gonzo retribution of the order of Pulp Fiction... Clare AK Writers Victoria.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>I have been reading crime fiction from bestsellers to hidden gems for many years and I have never...NEVER read anything as imaginative and humorous in such a uniquely Australian larrikin voice as Mark Furness' work. Mark Doic Goodreads.com.</span></p>