Iraqi Icicle

<p class=ql-align-justify>The fix is in and the bodies are piling up in Brisbane Australia in the shadows of the First Iraq War of 1990-91.</p><p class=ql-align-justify>A dead actress a dead gambler and that's for starters.</p><p class=ql-align-justify>With murder following his every step determined underachiever Steele Hill struggles through a bog of deceit.</p><p class=ql-align-justify>Pulled from his cozy world of the racetrack the rock-music pub and his favorite band in the world the Go-Betweens everybody the wise-cracking Hill meets is in danger.</p><p class=ql-align-justify>One ally is a reclusive teenage maths whiz channelling Hendrix and tapping into prohibited military software and magic mushrooms.</p><p class=ql-align-justify>Leaping off the shoulders of Joseph Heller's Catch-22 Iraqi Icicle is a weird wild and hilarious ride through the murky worlds of gambling drugs politics and rock'n'roll.</p><p class=ql-align-justify>Readers will appreciate the author's ability to render colorful characters and understated witty prose.</p><p class=ql-align-justify> - Publisher's Weekly</p>