ANDREW NETTE chats new heist thriller ORPHAN ROAD, Gunshine State, pulp fiction and bodgies & widgies.
ORPHAN ROAD Gary Chance is an ex-Australian army driver and nightclub bouncer turned professional thief and in need of a job. An offer comes from a former employer, once notorious Melbourne social identity, now aging owner of a failing S&M club, Vera Leigh.
A shadowy real estate developer is trying to squeeze Leigh out of a rapidly gentrifying city. But she has a rescue plan that involves one of Australia’s biggest heists, Melbourne’s Great Bookie Robbery. On April 21, 1976, a well organised gang stole as much as three million dollars, a fortune at the time, from a Melbourne bookmakers club. The money was never recovered. No one was charged. And everyone associated with the crime has since died, either by natural causes or violently.
Leigh maintains that money was not the only thing stolen that day. So was a stash of uncut South African diamonds. And she wants Chance’s help to retrieve them. Problem is, they are not the only ones looking.
The heist always goes wrong and the consequences, even half a century later, can be deadly.
ANDREW NETTE is an author of fiction and non-fiction, pulp scholar and lover of all things noir. He is the author of three novels, Ghost Money, a crime story set in Cambodia in the mid-nineties, and the heist thriller, Gunshine State and the sequel Orphan Road.
He is co-editor of Girl Gangs, Biker Boys & Real Cool Cats: Pulp Fiction & Youth Culture, 1950 to 1980, and Sticking it to the Man:Revolution and Counterculture in Pulp and Popular Fiction, 1956 to 1980, forthcoming in 2019.
His short fiction has appeared in a number of print publications, including The Obama Inheritance: Fifteen Stories of Conspiracy Noir (Three Rooms Press, 2017), Crime Scenes, an anthology of Australian crime fiction (Spineless Wonders, 2016), and Phnom Penh Noir (Heaven Lake Press, 2012). His online home is www.pulpcurry.com or you can follow him on Twitter @Pulpcurry
Horwitz Publications, Pulp Fiction and the Rise of the Australian Paperback (Anthem Studies in Book History, Publishing and Print Culture).
Recommend - Books: Carter Brown, Philip Kerr, Ernesto Mello, Peter Temple, Wallace Stroby, Peter Corris The Dying Trade, Gabrielle Lord The Fortress. Film: The Beast of the City, Nightmare Alley, The Beguiled, Mr. Inbetween, Mystery Road, Limbo, Phoenix.
Guy Hale for info on Guy Hale and Hillside Global and the music of Mike Zito ft. Kid Anderson - Killing Me Softly.
Paul Burke writes for Crime Time, Crime Fiction Lover and the European Literature Network. He is also a CWA Historical Dagger Judge 2023.
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ANDREW NETTE chats new heist thriller ORPHAN ROAD, Gunshine State, pulp fiction and bodgies & widgies.
ORPHAN ROAD Gary Chance is an ex-Australian army driver and nightclub bouncer turned professional thief and in need of a job. An offer comes from a former employer, once notorious Melbourne social identity, now aging owner of a failing S&M club, Vera Leigh.
A shadowy real estate developer is trying to squeeze Leigh out of a rapidly gentrifying city. But she has a rescue plan that involves one of Australia’s biggest heists, Melbourne’s Great Bookie Robbery. On April 21, 1976, a well organised gang stole as much as three million dollars, a fortune at the time, from a Melbourne bookmakers club. The money was never recovered. No one was charged. And everyone associated with the crime has since died, either by natural causes or violently.
Leigh maintains that money was not the only thing stolen that day. So was a stash of uncut South African diamonds. And she wants Chance’s help to retrieve them. Problem is, they are not the only ones looking.
The heist always goes wrong and the consequences, even half a century later, can be deadly.
ANDREW NETTE is an author of fiction and non-fiction, pulp scholar and lover of all things noir. He is the author of three novels, Ghost Money, a crime story set in Cambodia in the mid-nineties, and the heist thriller, Gunshine State and the sequel Orphan Road.
He is co-editor of Girl Gangs, Biker Boys & Real Cool Cats: Pulp Fiction & Youth Culture, 1950 to 1980, and Sticking it to the Man:Revolution and Counterculture in Pulp and Popular Fiction, 1956 to 1980, forthcoming in 2019.
His short fiction has appeared in a number of print publications, including The Obama Inheritance: Fifteen Stories of Conspiracy Noir (Three Rooms Press, 2017), Crime Scenes, an anthology of Australian crime fiction (Spineless Wonders, 2016), and Phnom Penh Noir (Heaven Lake Press, 2012). His online home is www.pulpcurry.com or you can follow him on Twitter @Pulpcurry
Horwitz Publications, Pulp Fiction and the Rise of the Australian Paperback (Anthem Studies in Book History, Publishing and Print Culture).
Recommend - Books: Carter Brown, Philip Kerr, Ernesto Mello, Peter Temple, Wallace Stroby, Peter Corris The Dying Trade, Gabrielle Lord The Fortress. Film: The Beast of the City, Nightmare Alley, The Beguiled, Mr. Inbetween, Mystery Road, Limbo, Phoenix.
Guy Hale for info on Guy Hale and Hillside Global and the music of Mike Zito ft. Kid Anderson - Killing Me Softly.
Paul Burke writes for Crime Time, Crime Fiction Lover and the European Literature Network. He is also a CWA Historical Dagger Judge 2023.
Produced by Junkyard Dog
Crime Time
Crime Time FM is the official podcast of
Gwyl Crime Cymru Festival 2023
CrimeFest 2023
CWA Daggers 2023
& Newcastle Noir 2023
2024??