Kangaroo Court

When Society throws you to the wolves - who can YOU call? Dial the trio from the Firefly Electrics Company. Meet the electricians who re-wire Society today in this series of bestselling crime thrillers with a comic-noir twist. Dark angels, dangerous subversives, lovely young men. Lennie and Joe, abetted by their sharp-tongued cockatoo Rawcus, have heard it all. Electricians by day, they fight crime in the shadows of the city; crime the Establishment can't touch - or is part of. 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. Now they're wanted for Crimes against Crime. In Kangaroo Court, Lennie, Joe and Rawcus are touring inside a wilderness forest when they discover an abandoned campervan - and a pair of stringless tennis racquets. Who would own such objects, and why? The deeper into the forest they venture, the more mysterious things they find. They're soon headlong on a mission to save strangers from a terrifying ordeal among the trees. Meanwhile, their partner in a secret botanical business is abducted, forcing Lennie and Joe to confront demons from their past. Can they save the childlike young man they call The Chemist? If that's not enough to juggle, their friend Pauline Gerrity rings an alarm from her refuge for abused women and children. Her call leads Lennie and Joe to create a sculpture they title Cocoon of Man and hang anonymously from an inner-city tree. A leading art critic likens their work to the British street artist, Banksy. But when the critic adds that the mysterious tree-hangers must be "borderline psychos", Lennie and Joe aren't sure whether to be flattered or insulted... "These eccentric inner-city Sydney crusaders, created by crime suspense master Mark Furness, are a whole new adventure in crime capers and my favourite series of the year...quirky and refreshingly wry." Tom Flood, Winner of the Miles Franklin Award, Australia's equivalent of the US Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the UK Booker Prize. "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 Allan-Kamil, Writers Victoria. "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 Droic, Goodreads. Other readers are saying: "These stories hold me spellbound." "Sharp, new Aussie crime fiction." "I particularly like the writing style; it's edgy, restless and wanting." "Gritty yet funny." "A revenge caper with humour and attitude." "An action-packed tale of vigilante justice soaked in black humour and more surprise twists than a slalom course in the Winter Olympics." Justice Machine, Book 1 in the Firefly Electrics Series of dark comedy crime thrillers hit #1 Bestseller on release under "Lawyers & Criminals Humour". Kangaroo Court, series Book 2, hit #2 Bestseller in the same category on release. Galaxy Motel, Book 3, hit #1 Bestseller. Gumleaf Mafia, Book 4, is on its way.