Justice Machine

When Society throws you to the wolves - who can YOU call? Dial the trio from the Firefly Electrics Company. Meet the electricians who re-wire Society today in these crime-noir thrillers with a dark humour twist. Dark angels, dangerous subversives, lovely young men. Lennie and Joe, abetted by their sharp-tongued cockatoo Rawcus, have heard it all. Electricians by day, they fight crime in the shadows of the city; crime the Establishment can't touch - or is part of! Lennie calls it re-wiring Society. Joe reckons they're simply fixing bad people. Rawcus, who grew up in a pub, just wants a cold beer after a hard day on the power grid. Now they're wanted for Crimes against Crime. In Justice Machine, Lennie and Joe thank their lucky stars when they are fishing at dawn on a city wharf and a small fortune falls from the sky into their laps during a cargo-loading accident. They escape without being ID'd, and know exactly how to distribute the windfall. But they've triggered a manhunt that threatens to blow their world apart... When Lennie's ex-parole officer, Trixi Talaveda, drops into their home for a chat about the missing cash, accompanied by a pair of human bulls called the Enoka brothers, life becomes trickier than ever. Will this new peril derail their plans to re-educate a "trusted financial adviser" who persuaded Lennie's beloved Aunty Doreen that money really did "grow on trees" - and drove her to the grave? Might a sea voyage with Aunty D's tormentor aboard their little yacht, Flamingo Sky, solve all their problems? Or might it all end in disaster? In Justice Machine, as Lennie explains to their reluctant shipmate: "A machine isn't only a bunch of nuts and bolts...it's a word for a process that transforms things." "These eccentric inner-city Sydney crusaders, created by crime suspense master Mark Furness, are a whole new adventure in crime capers and my favourite series of the year...quirky and refreshingly wry." Tom Flood, Winner of the Miles Franklin Award, Australia's equivalent of the US Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the UK Booker Prize. "Redolent of Lord Of The Flies and Of Mice And Men...A post-Zen Batman and Robin...Lennie and Joe, and their pet, Rawcus, configure a doctorate in elegant, fair-minded Gonzo retribution of the order of Pulp Fiction..." Clare Allan-Kamil, Writers Victoria. "I have been reading crime fiction from bestsellers to hidden gems for many years and I have never...NEVER read anything as imaginative and humorous in such a uniquely Australian larrikin voice as Mark Furness' work." Mark Droic, Goodreads.