True West

Western Australia, 1988: after betraying the Knights motorcycle gang, 17-year-old Lee Southern flees to the city with nothing left to lose. 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.


Genre: Mystery

"A terrific novel-taut, economical and tightly plotted-that propels the reader through an unsettling phase in Australia's recent past." - Garry Disher