Author(s): Bruce Pascoe

Aust Fiction

Jim Bloke's your quintessential Aussie, sort of. Being adopted, he's done it tough in the past, both at the hands of women and the law. The start of this novel finds Bloke in a job fishing for abalone. Only problem is, the abalone industy is crookeder than your average politician, and Bloke makes the perfect fall guy for a scam.