Description
Disgraced former British secret service agent Bromo Perkins has high hopes of settling into a quiet and anonymous life in Australia. His plans are brutally shattered when the seductive minder of a local standover man coerces him into settling a dispute between her boss and a rival property developer.
As he unravels the dark underside of city hall Bromo becomes deeper and deeper embroiled in local politics, bribery and ethnic rivalries. Author Tony Berry gets under the skin of Australian inner-city life as he tracks Bromo's descent into the suburb's underbelly of corruption and violence and its harrowing conclusion.