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fadedrose

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7. I really like this character

Thu Dec 27, 2012, 09:40 PM

Dec 2012

Austrailian is very hard to read - words I never heard of and the way he uses them, and Maloney has a very good vocabulary. Almost gave up but stuck with it and my reward was a lot of action and humor. I have the sequel (got 4 of them from an interlibrary loan) and I feel like seeing more of Murray Whelan so I'm starting it now...

Austrailian doesn't seem to be one language, unless you count the Aboriginies who are not in this book. Greeks, Italians, Turks, Maltese, British, Japanese, Kurds and other ethnic groups inhabit Melbourne. This book mentions so many government agencies handling these groups I couldn't keep them straight.

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