Publisher's Synopsis
When a Pillar of Society robs you blind. And the Law turns a blind eye. Who can YOU turn to?
Dial the trio from Firefly Electrics Co! Meet the new breed of public protectors. Dark angels, dangerous subversives, lovely young men. Lennie and Joe - and their cockatoo, Rawcus - have heard it all. Suburban electricians by day, they fight crime in the shadows of the city; crime the Establishment can't touch, or is part of. Lennie calls it rewiring society. Joe reckons they're simply fixing bad people. Rawcus, who grew up in a pub, just wants a cold beer after a hard day on the power grid. In Justice Machine, Lennie and Joe thank their lucky stars when they are fishing at dawn on a city wharf and a small fortune falls from the sky into their laps during a cargo-loading accident. They escape without being ID'd, and know exactly how to distribute the windfall. But they've triggered a manhunt that threatens to blow their world apart... When Lennie's ex-parole officer, Trixi Talaveda, drops into their home for a chat about the missing cash, accompanied by a pair of human bulls called the Enoka brothers, life becomes as hair-raising as redback spiders in your pants. Will this new peril derail their plans to re-educate a man who persuaded Lennie's beloved Aunty Doreen that money really did "grow on trees" - and drove her to the grave? Might a sea voyage with Aunty D's tormentor aboard their little yacht, Flamingo Sky, solve all their problems? Or might it all end in disaster? "These eccentric inner-city crusaders are a whole new adventure in crime capers and my favourite series of the year so far...quirky and refreshingly wry." Tom Flood, Winner of the Miles Franklin Award, Australia's equivalent of the US Pulitzer Prize and the UK Booker Prize. "Redolent of Lord Of The Flies and Of Mice And Men...A post-Zen Batman and Robin...Lennie and Joe, and their pet, Rawcus, configure a doctorate in elegant, fair-minded Gonzo retribution of the order of Pulp Fiction..." Clare Allan-Kamil, Writers Victoria. "I have been reading crime fiction from bestsellers to hidden gems for many years and I have never...NEVER read anything as imaginative and humorous in such a uniquely Australian larrikin voice as Mark Furness' work." Mark Doic, Goodreads.
