The Guts

<p>After being violently warned off a story investigative journalist Adam Osprey has pretty much resigned himself to the ease of lifestyle journalism eating and drinking for a living. But his old instincts are triggered when a mysterious message on his computer interrupts his research for an article on Sydney's best restaurant toilets.</p><p>Justine has returned to Sydney after a stint working in Africa as an aid worker. Many of her friends are beginning to get married and have babies. She is getting itchy feet when a chance meeting with an old lover in a pub leads to a dangerous somewhat repulsive mission.</p><p>Roger Houston Minister for Development in the Sporty Party is one of the old school whose career in politics has followed a buffet logic of hedonism and self-enrichment. But just when it looks as if he has succeeded in becoming the master puppeteer the disappearance of Alexander Parker MP sets in train aa surprising series of events.</p><p><strong><em>The Guts</em></strong> is a sharp funny and affecting literary thriller about Sydney's power politics and lifestyle obsessions as the internet began to change everything.</p>