TY  - BOOK
AU  - Serong,Jock
TI  - The rules of backyard cricket
SN  - 9781925355215
U1  - A823.4 23
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Melbourne, Victoria
PB  - The Text Publishing Company
KW  - Brothers
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Australian fiction
KW  - Suspense fiction
KW  - Cricket players
KW  - Suspense fiction, Australian
KW  - fast
KW  - Australian
KW  - Thrillers (Fiction)
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Australian stories
KW  - Adult fiction
KW  - Print
KW  - gsafd
N2  - It starts in a suburban backyard with Darren Keefe and his older brother, sons of a fierce and gutsy single mother. The endless glow of summer, the bottomless fury of contest. All the love and hatred in two small bodies poured into the rules of a made-up game. Darren has two big talents: cricket and trouble. No surprise that he becomes an Australian sporting star of the bad-boy variety:one of those men who's always got away with things and just keeps getting. Until the day we meet him, middle aged, in the boot of a car. Gagged, cable-tied, a bullet in his knee. Everything pointing towards a shallow grave. The Rules of Backyard Cricket is a novel of suspense in the tradition of Peter Temple's Truth. With glorious writing harnessed to a gripping narrative, it observes celebrity, masculinity--humanity--with clear-eyed lyricism and exhilarating narrative drive
ER  -