The low road
Subtitle: a novel
By: Chris Womersley
Publisher: SilverOak
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 251
ISBN-13: 9781402798634
Subjects: Drug addicts; Criminals; Theft; Fiction
Description: "Young petty criminal Lee wakes up in a seedy motel with a bullet in his side, a suitcase of stolen money, and only a hazy idea of how he got there. Wild, a drug-addicted doctor also taking refuge at the motel, is forced by the proprietor to save Lee's life--and move him out before the police show up. Connected by this twist of fate, the two strangers go on the lam, becoming the wariest of traveling companions, as the past pursues them in the form of an aging gangster determined to retrieve Lee's suitcase of money--and punish him for the theft"--Page 4 of cover.
Notes: "Originally published in Australia in 2007"--Title page verso.

Winner of the Ned Kelly Award for best first fiction.