my dealer hit me up with some new product, it's called 'the broken ones' by an australian writer and i have to say it's the first time i have really been enthusiastic about an australian writer in years, i have no idea who this guy is, but the book he has written is brilliant.
yeah my book dealer runs a small independent and well respected book shop and she is often given books that have yet to be published to read and comment upon, she can't read everything that comes her way and will often pass stuff on to me, especially if it's somewhat transgressive, outside the box, or science fiction.
she handed me this book a few days ago and i'm halfway through it. set some time in the near future in a queensland city, possibly brisbane, after an event called grey thursday, every human being is assigned a ghost, a single presence they may or may not know, who is with them all the time. these ghosts send many insane, due to the errie concept of being present in their lives all the time, and often the criminals use them as an excuse for which they are not charged. our protagonist investigates claims like these and is a haunted person himself, from his past and from a young boy who is his assigned ghost.
we follow his journey through the darkest landscape you can imagine, meeting some pretty well developed characters and some very unsavoury personalities. as he follows the leads in a brutal and savage murder investigation, leading into what appears to be an occult area.
i gotta say it's very well written, and i believe will be insanely successful as a book and eventually a movie, i love it, i love it so much i wanna be the main character in the movie. i could do that character, i really could.
anyway it's a great book and i'm half way through.