AustLit

The story is loosely based on recent cases of police corruption and gangland activities in Melbourne. Jackson is a seventeen/eighteen year old girl with future plans for attending university. Through her first boyfriend, Ben, she unwittingly becomes involved in a St Kilda heroin sale that goes wrong. In order to protect Ben, she flees with the heroin supply to the supposed sanctuary of Flinders Island. Here she meets John, an animal-fixated vet science student, and Pete, a recluse who has lost his family in tragic circumstances. When Jackson's pursuers - in the form of bent, but entertaining Nick, and later, two employees of the corrupt Detective Inspector Michael Harris - arrive on Flinders Island, the entire island community is drawn into the sordid, violent world of gangland drug dealing. - from Publisher's website http://www.southcom.com.au/ sighted 31/7/07