Iraqi Icicle

<p class=ql-align-justify><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>The fix is in and the bodies are piling up in Brisbane Australia in the shadows of the First Iraq War of 1990-91.</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>A dead actress a dead gambler and that's for starters.</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>With murder following his every step determined underachiever Steele Hill struggles through</span> a bog of deceit.</p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>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.</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>One ally is a reclusive teenage maths whiz channelling Hendrix and tapping into prohibited military software and magic mushrooms.</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>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.</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>Readers will appreciate the author's ability to render colorful characters and understated witty prose.</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)> - Publisher's Weekly</span></p>