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2000s: Wander the shady corridor of Canberra politics…
Dead Cat Bounce
What you need to know before your trail
A popular government minister goes missing right in the middle of a federal campaign only to turn up dead on the shores of Lake Burley Griffin.
Detective Darren Glass and the Australian Federal Police get straight on the case, but the investigation into the minister’s murder quickly becomes entangled in a game of high-stakes politics.And more bodies.
Glass has a difficult case on his hands as he suspects there’s some very powerful people involved in this case. The case is a very public one and so Glass feels it as the pressure builds up to shocking levels. And where everyone seems to have a motive for murder.
And no one is safe — not even the prime minister. As election day nears, Glass risks everything for a breakthrough in the case, and his life is soon hanging by a thread. But if he thought he’d hit rock bottom, he was wrong …
Travel Guide
Canberra politics
Dive straight in to the political machinations of Canberra. There’s some dirty dealings in this government it would seem and when the body of one of them is found in Canberra’s central and very public lake, things take a dangerously dark turn.
There’s something really dark about behind going behind the scenes of a political setting and although fictional of course, written by a man who himself has been media advisor to three federal cabinet ministers, this novel has added gravitas.
A booktrail here is good since you can walk around the centre of Canberra and see many if not all of the locations in the novel and look up at the federal buildings and wonder just what is going on in those corridors of power.
Streetview Maps
A) Canberra - Lake Griffin
C) Canberra - Government House
Booktrail Boarding Pass Information: Dead Cat Bounce
Author/Guide Peter Cotton Destination: Canberra Departure Time: 2000s
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