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'Career cop Detective Senior Sergeant Tony 'Rocket' Laver is a policeman with issues.
Sure, he may have been returning fire, but the fact remains that Laver is the sixth Victorian policeman to shoot a suspect in four months, and that's all the politicians need to get involved. While the circus of an inquiry begins, Laver is moved from Major Crime to the Mobile Public Interaction Squad ... aka the mountain bike police. Bitter, struggling to cope with the fatal shooting - not to mention his flailing relationship, Rocket is now wearing lycra and getting a sore butt on his bike seat.
Laver's friends and bosses in the force tell him to keep his head down until the storm blows over, but that doesn't factor in Stig and the Wild Man, two genuine bad guys Laver encounters on Smith Street, Collingwood. In innercity and outer-suburban Melbourne, major crime is in the air. Lives might be in danger but nobody will listen to a cop on the outer. Add a nerdy supermarket-assistant manager in a bad reggae beanie, a hippy chick intent on saving the world, Nazi-like police rookies, mysterious men in suits and a human koala and you've got what it takes for a blackly funny action-packed addition to your spring/summer reading.' (Publisher's blurb)
Sure, he may have been returning fire, but the fact remains that Laver is the sixth Victorian policeman to shoot a suspect in four months, and that's all the politicians need to get involved. While the circus of an inquiry begins, Laver is moved from Major Crime to the Mobile Public Interaction Squad ... aka the mountain bike police. Bitter, struggling to cope with the fatal shooting - not to mention his flailing relationship, Rocket is now wearing lycra and getting a sore butt on his bike seat.
Laver's friends and bosses in the force tell him to keep his head down until the storm blows over, but that doesn't factor in Stig and the Wild Man, two genuine bad guys Laver encounters on Smith Street, Collingwood. In innercity and outer-suburban Melbourne, major crime is in the air. Lives might be in danger but nobody will listen to a cop on the outer. Add a nerdy supermarket-assistant manager in a bad reggae beanie, a hippy chick intent on saving the world, Nazi-like police rookies, mysterious men in suits and a human koala and you've got what it takes for a blackly funny action-packed addition to your spring/summer reading.' (Publisher's blurb)
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2013
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review
— Appears in: The Saturday Age , 4 May 2013; (p. 30)
— Review of Roll With It 2013 single work novel -
Coffee, Crooks and a Cowboy Cop Challenge 'Chain Ganger'
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 4-5 May 2013; (p. 30-31) The Canberra Times , 4 May 2013; (p. 22)
— Review of Roll With It 2013 single work novel
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Coffee, Crooks and a Cowboy Cop Challenge 'Chain Ganger'
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 4-5 May 2013; (p. 30-31) The Canberra Times , 4 May 2013; (p. 22)
— Review of Roll With It 2013 single work novel -
Untitled
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: The Saturday Age , 4 May 2013; (p. 30)
— Review of Roll With It 2013 single work novel
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