“Readers will appreciate the author's ability to render colorful
characters and understated witty prose.”
– Publishers Weekly
Title: Iraqi Icicle
Author: Bernie Dowling
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Official Synopsis:
The
fix is in, the bodies are piling up, and they’re racing in this comedy crime
novel.
A dead actress, a dead gambler and that’s for starters.
With murder following his every step, determined under-achiever
Steele Hill is tangled in layers of intrigue and deviousness.
The reluctant detective is dragged from his cozy 1980s zone of the
racetrack, the rock-music pub and his favorite band in the world, the
Go-Betweens.
Steele Hill roars up the Australian streets of Brisbane and the
Gold Coast trying to survive clashes with deadly blondes, cops, and crims.
Anybody wise-cracking Hill meets is in danger.
One ally is a reclusive teenage maths whiz, channeling Hendrix,
and tapping into forbidden U.S. military software and magic mushrooms.
Leaping off the shoulders of
Joseph Heller's Catch-22, Iraqi Icicle is a wild and hilarious 403-page ride
through the murky worlds of gambling, drugs, politics and rock’n’roll.
Excerpt
Mooney did the talking. ‘It’s like this,
Hill. You’re a clown and a pest.’ He arced his arm proprietorially over the
city. ‘We’ve got people out there who are murdering and maiming, robbing and pillaging.’
‘Maybe you should tighten up your police
recruitment procedures.’ Sometimes I have no control over my mouth.
‘That sort of smart comment is what I’m on
about,’ said Mooney. ‘You’re too lazy to work and too gutless to break and
enter like an honest grub crim.’
Eloquent man that Mooney, he must have
kissed the Blarney Stone.
‘Then you go stuffing up our day of
grub-catching by killing (name).’
Mooney stopped talking and looked hard at
me. I returned a blank look. He grabbed a handful of my shirt, twisted it and
thumped me in the chest.
‘Hey!’ he shouted, while he pushed me back
and forth.
I know he meant nothing by it; it was just
a copper’s way of emphasising a point. He thumped me in the chest again. ‘Hey!’
the sergeant repeated.
Me, I still looked blankly at him. Schmidt
intervened, grabbing hold of Mooney’s wrist. ‘Hang on, Frank.’
Oh Buddha, I thought, not this good cop,
bad cop stuff. Yes it was.
‘Hang on nothing; I’m gunna throw this bloke
right off this mountain.’
About the Author
Bernie Dowling is an Australian humorist working
in the fields of journalism, fiction and non-fiction.
He wrote the award-winning humorous column My
Shout for more than a decade.
His first novel Iraqi Icicle is in its third
edition in hardback, paperback and as an eBook.
The author's other books include O Lorde about
the pop singer and 7 Shouts, based on his newspaper columns.
Dowling is the author of plays and is a boutique
publisher.
His website is www.bentbananabooks.com
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