The rules of backyard cricket
By: Jock Serong
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 291
ISBN-13: 9781925355215; 9781911231035
Subjects: Australian fiction; Fiction; Cricket players; Brothers; Australian Suspense fiction
Description: It starts in a suburban backyard with Darren Keefe and his older brother, sons of a fierce and gutsy single mother. The endless glow of summer, the bottomless fury of contest. All the love and hatred in two small bodies poured into the rules of a made-up game. Darren has two big talents: cricket and trouble. No surprise that he becomes an Australian sporting star of the bad-boy variety one of those men who's always got away with things and just keeps getting. Until the day we meet him, middle aged, in the boot of a car. Gagged, cable-tied, a bullet in his knee. Everything pointing towards a shallow grave.