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Jack Anderson was a big man with a foul temper, a sadist and a drunk. Five months after his horse appeared riderless, no trace of the man has surfaced and no one seems to care. But Bony is determined to follow the cold trail and smoke out some answers.
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I love it when a book takes me to an entirely new world. This series fascinates me with it’s deft portrayal of a wholly different culture in one of the most antithetical-to-life climates on earth.
Arthur Upfield takes us deep into the Australian outback with Detective-Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte (Bony), a half white and half aboriginal detective. The two sides of Bony’s heritage are constantly at war and to prevent his black side from winning, he must solve all his cases. Prejudice against the aboriginals is rampant in this world and as readers, we too suffer his stings of rejection.
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