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Death of John Lacey

By: Ben Hobson
Narrated by: Stephen Hunter
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‘He felt the lump of gold still in his pocket. He would find his way out of this place and leave his brother happy and he would etch his name into the red earth or be damned.'

John Lacey lusts for power and knows that gold can bring him riches and influence beyond his wildest dreams. Only he knows the terrible crime he committed to attain that wealth. Years later, as Lacey ruthlessly presides over the town he built and named after himself, no one has the courage to question his power or how he wields it.

Brothers Ernst and Joe Montague are on the run from the law. They land in Lacey's town and commit desperate crimes to avoid capture. Lacey vows retribution and galvanises those in the town to hunt them down. But not everyone is blind to Lacey's evil, and a reckoning is approaching.

A visceral, powerful dissection of dispossession and colonisation, and the crimes committed in their name, The Death of John Lacey is also a moving and tender account of the love between brothers and a meditation on the true meaning of mercy and justice.

'The writing is honest, rich and clean, and it made me feel so much. Too many writers fuss things up, but Ben tells it simply, which is so affecting.' SOFIE LAGUNA

©2023 Ben Hobson (P)2022 Allen and Unwin Publishing Literature & Fiction Suspense Fiction

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Amazing story - hoping for a sequel! And a movie! A brilliant Australian novel - must read!

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I couldn’t put it down. I just hope you have a sequel to this book as I really want to know what happened to the characters at the end.

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