True West - Whish-Wilson, David

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Résumé :
The first book in the Lee Southern series by award-winning author David Whish-Wilson. Western Australia, 1988. After betraying the Knights bikie gang, seventeen-year-old Lee Southern flees to the city. Working as a rogue tow truck driver in Perth, he is captured by right-wing extremists whose combination of seduction and blackmail keeps him on the wrong side of the law and under their control. As the true nature of what drives his captors unfolds, Lee becomes an unwilling participant in a breathtakingly ambitious plot - and a cold-blooded crime that will show just how much he, and everyone else, still has to lose. Gritty and unsettling, this noir crime novel is based on Perth's thriving Neo-Nazi movement of the late 1980s....

Biographie:
David Whish-Wilson is the author of The Summons, The Coves and three crime novels in the Frank Swann series: Line of Sight, Zero at the Bone and Old Scores. His nonfiction book, Perth, was shortlisted for a WA Premier's Book Award. David coordinates the creative writing program at Curtin University....

Sommaire:
David Whish-Wilson is the author of eleven novels and three creative non-fiction books. He was born in Newcastle, New South Wales, but raised in Singapore, Victoria and Western Australia. At eighteen, he left Australia to live for a decade in Europe, Africa and Asia, where he worked as a barman, actor, streetseller, petty criminal, labourer, exterminator, factory worker, gardener, clerk, travel agent, teacher and drug trial guinea pig.David is the author of four novels in the Frank Swann crime series and two in the Lee Southern series, two of which have been shortlisted for Ned Kelly Awards. David wrote the Perth book in the NewSouth Books city series, which was shortlisted for a Western Australian Premier's Book Award.He currently lives in Fremantle, Western Australia, with his partner and three kids, and teaches creative writing at Curtin University....