Sorry Time

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A Sense of Place Publishing, Apr 26, 2017 - Fiction - 252 pages
You’re driving along a lonely outback road when suddenly a kangaroo leaps out in front of you. Your car is wrecked and then things rapidly go downhill from there as you find yourself under attack from a pack of wild dogs. Having survived that, you cross bloody paths with a pair of violent criminals who’ve murdered two people on a remote Aboriginal community.

And then things go REALLY pear-shaped as you find yourself caught up on a rollercoaster of bloody revenge that takes you to the other side of the globe and to the edge of madness.
Sorry Time is a breakneck story that offers a rich and entertaining reading experience, and will travel well to film. You'll meet a cast of memorable characters like Glen of the Outback, who claims to be the man in the orange T-shirt in a David Bowie clip, and rat-faced mortuary attendant Mal Kite, who runs a profitable sideline stealing valuables from bodies. And last but not least, the villain of the piece, Ali Fazir, a meth addict with a penchant for beheading. The story is steeped in an ominous, occult sub-current as Dreamtime spirits lash out after the removal of a fabulous opal from an Aboriginal burial ground.
 

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THE OWNER HAS LEFT THE BUILDING
KANGAROOS CROSSING
THE PACK IS HUNGRY
ST CATHERINES
MEET ALIAND ABDUL
HEAD OF BEHEADING
ROAST
RUBYS NIGHTMARE
MONEY TALKS
THE PIKES
THE FAMILY BUSINESS
ARE YOU IN THE LAND OF THE LIVING?
RENATA PETRA AND RUDI
AUF WIEDERSEN
THERES A MAN CALLED JIANG FENG
COLD CALLING

SORRY TIME
DOMESTIC BLISS
FIREBALL
EYE OF THE STORM
WEEPING AND GNASHING OF TEETH
SO HELP ME
ALIS DEMON
A SMALL PROBLEM
PAYBACK
OPAL CAPITAL
THE BIG BLOKE WITH A GOATEE
VENOMOUS VISITOR
LETS FINISH THIS
DEATH OF A THOUSAND CUTS
GLEN OF THE OUTBACK
THE GODS NEED A SACRIFICE
KISS GOODBYE
ROAD RAGE
DEATH COMES KNOCKING
MUM SENDS HER LOVE
THE FRIDGE
WRITING ON THE WALL
CONTROL + ALT + DEL 40 MORTAL KOMBAT
CALL TO PRAYERS
A CRUEL PLACE
INSHALLAH
EYE FOR AN
DEJA
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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Anthony Maguire was brought up in Australia, Greece, Spain, the UK and Sweden. He has been a writer for most of his professional life, working as a journalist in print, radio, TV and on the web. Along the way he has run a music video festival, played harmonica in bands and produced conferences. He lives in Sydney but has spent almost two years in central Australia, giving a stamp of authority to the outback scenes in Sorry Time. And to research the book’s climax near the Turkish-Syrian border, he spent a week in the Indiana Jones-esque city of Antakya in southern Turkey.

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