Minotaur / Peter Goldsworthy.
Publication details: Docklands, VIC : Viking, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2019.Description: 326 pages ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780143795698
- 0143795694
- 9781760144685
- 1760144681
- Suspense fiction
- Thriller / suspense fiction
- Police -- Violence against -- Fiction
- Police -- Australia -- Fiction
- Workers' compensation -- Fiction
- Escaped prisoners -- Fiction
- Detectives -- Australia -- Fiction
- Stalking victims -- Australia -- Fiction
- Ex-police officers -- Australia -- Fiction
- Blind -- Australia -- Fiction
- Revenge -- Fiction
- Police -- Fiction
- Blindness -- Fiction
- Australian fiction
- Australian
- 823.4 23
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Fiction | GOL | Available | 069476 |
Detective Sergeant Rick Zadow is angry, unmotivated, unwashed, unkempt, and almost entirely reliant on his guide dog, Scout, and voice-controlled personal assistant Siri to make it through each day: one a voice without a body, the other a body without a voice. Left blind after a bullet wound to the head two years before, he is caught up in a workers' compensation battle between two psychiatrists - one acting for him, and one appointed by WorkCover - over how much compo he should be awarded. Reminders of his former life keep on tripping Rick up. His wife has moved out, and another former passion of his life - a legendary Ducati motorbike he was halfway through restoring - sits abandoned in the back shed. All of which is the background to the central story: the breakout from jail of the man who shot him, and who is seeking to finish the job . . . Part laugh-out-loud comedy, part deadly serious study of revenge , part love story, this unique novel from one of our finest writers is also a slow, crabwise journey of self-discovery. As Rick navigates his sense-world (smell, sound, touch, taste . . . and finally, sight), there is a sixth sense he must also learn to trust - his gut instinct - which might just turn out to be his best.