Iraqi Icicle: Third Edition

The fix is in and the bodies are piling up. A dead actress a dead gambler and thats for starters. With murder following his every step determined under-achiever Steele Hill is tangled in layers of intrigue and deviousness. Pulled from his 1980s 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. One ally is a reclusive teenage maths whiz channeling Hendrix and tapping into prohibited military software and magic mushrooms. Leaping off the shoulders of Joseph Hellers Catch-22 Iraqi Icicle is a wild and hilarious ride through the murky worlds of gambling drugs politics and rocknroll.Readers will appreciate the authors ability to render colorful characters and understated witty prose. - Publishers Weekly